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Join Us AT Cloud2020 To Talk About The Future Of Infrastructure Services

Rishidot Research — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:04:30 +0000

We are hearing about infrastructure commoditization for sometime now. We are hearing about how infrastructure will end up like dumb pipes and action is going to be on the layers above the infrastructure stack. On the other hand, we are seeing traditional infrastructure vendors confident about their future and even bullish about how they are [...]

Briefing Notes: Cloudsoft AMP

Rishidot Research — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:39:09 +0000

This is a briefing note prepared by me on Cloudsoft AMP, a DevOps platform services player offering autonomic management of applications. Overview: Cloudsoft AMP is an enterprise application management platform that helps automate the process based on business and performance needs. Deploying an application on any cloud or PaaS is just one part of the [...]

Webinar: Dissecting The PaaS Landscape

Rishidot Research — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:29:59 +0000

Deploycon 2013 is fast approaching and we want to build the necessary foundation for the conversation before we get together at Santa Clara Convention Center on April 2nd. We are in the process of preparing a research report on PaaS landscape and we want to talk about it before Deploycon. In order to do that, [...]

Get Ready For Deploycon 2013

Rishidot Research — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:59:53 +0000

Last year we ran Deploycon for the first time and it was a great success. For the first time in the industry, we had a good collection of vendors, pundits and enterprise buyers getting together in a room and discuss Platform as a Service seriously. Before that, I literally begged various conferences to run an [...]

Rap Genius Flap And PaaS Visibility

Rishidot Research — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:44:02 +0000

Recently, a startup called Rap Genius and Heroku went back and forth on whether Heroku intentionally misled their customers about the resources underneath their PaaS platform. Having known Heroku for a long time and the fact that Salesforce will not want a PR mishap on such an issue, I personally feel that Heroku may not have [...]

PaaS Landscape Report: Inviting PaaS Vendors

Rishidot Research — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:09:49 +0000

Rishidot Research is planning to release a research report on PaaS Landscape on April 2nd 2013. We are already in the process of preparing this report. If you are a PaaS vendor and have never briefed me in the past, please use the link to set up a briefing before March 15th 2013. If you [...]

Briefing Notes: Apprenda

Rishidot Research — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:00:57 +0000

This is a briefing notes prepared by me on Apprenda, a private PaaS vendor focused on best of breed approach with .NET and Java Overview: Apprenda is one of the early private PaaS players with a focus on best of breed technology. After an initial focus on .NET, Apprenda is diversifying into other languages with [...]

Briefing Notes: Ravello Systems

Rishidot Research — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:07:47 +0000

This is a briefing note prepared by me on Ravello Systems, a startup focussed on application development in hybrid cloud environment. Overview: Ravello Systems helps migrate your applications from inside the organization’s datacenter to cloud and across the cloud. Ravello’s Cloud Application Hypervisor encapsulates all the virtual machines needed for an application to make the [...]

Briefing Notes: Cloudscaling

Rishidot Research — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:00:14 +0000

This is a briefing note prepared by me on Cloudscaling, a vendor in OpenStack ecosystem offering production grade cloud platform. Overview: Cloudscaling is one of the vendors in the OpenStack ecosystem focusing on building infrastructure for web scale applications. Their core product is Open Cloud System, which is in Version 2.0 now. OCS is suitable [...]

Meet The Vendor: Parallels

Rishidot Research — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:34:23 +0000

Recently, I attended the Parallels Summit 2013 at Las Vegas. During the summit, myself and Alex Williams of Techcrunch had a chance to interview the CEO of Parallels, Birger Steen and talk about the SMB infrastructure market, Parallels cloud strategy and what he expects in the future. We also talked about the application packaging standard [...]