Enterprise Hybrid Clouds and Reverse Cloud Washing
The vast majority of enterprises that I talk to believe that the natural end state for cloud computing is a hybrid one. This means a combination of public/private/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS depending upon the...
View ArticleThe Best PaaS is one that is Being Used
Often I hear that the enterprise is “starting to warm up to PaaS” spoken as though adoption in the enterprise is purely a function of the customer’s readiness. Obviously an enterprise must adjust its...
View ArticleMoving PaaS Beyond the Sound Bites in 2013
Image credit: Guillerm Sculptures Most of the discussion around PaaS these days tends to focus on the rapid application deployment capabilities. That’s the easiest thing to demo in a 3-minute video so...
View ArticlePaaS and Mobile Enterprise – Real Conversations with Customers
Image credit: www.digitalbuzzblog.com One of the benefits of working on cutting edge technology like PaaS is that I get to have conversations with enterprise customers about the transformations that...
View ArticleThe Truth About Lock In
Image Credit: Best Boston Locksmith Last week I was invited to speak at a Microsoft conference in Redmond about building cloud applications for portability across clouds and infrastructure. In my...
View ArticleTop Five Challenges Facing Enterprise Application Developers
Image Credit: barnraisersllc.com Several common themes have emerged from discussions with a broad array of enterprise developers. In this post, I’ll share some of what I’ve been hearing. I would love...
View ArticleBest of Breed versus Polyglot Revisited
Image Credit: Bellperformance.com If you feel that PaaS is a new-age devops/application management tool, like any management tool user or vendor, you’ll want maximum breadth of coverage. Nobody wants...
View ArticleYou Can’t Automate Your Way to the Cloud
Image Credit: Accosystems When racing to execute a ‘cloud’ strategy, it can be very tempting for IT organizations to try and automate their way to the cloud. A key benefit of the cloud is operational...
View ArticleEnterprise PaaS Is About Making Money, Not Saving It
Image Credit: Earningwow I’ve written before about how the ‘deploy and scale’ demo of PaaS is really just a superficial illustration of its potential. It functionally buckets PaaS with automation tools...
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