Platform as a Service

Rishidot Research LLC, the next-gen analyst firm, on Thursday announced DeployCon 2012, the first conference focused exclusively on Platform as a Service (PaaS) for enterprise. According to market research firm IDC, the worldwide public PaaS market is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2010 to $9.1 billion by 2015. As this service-driven model of cloud computing matures and enterprises accelerate adoption, the focus shifts towards PaaS. Even though PaaS has been comfortably embraced by individual developers and startups in large numbers for a few years, enterprises today are evolving their opinion and implementation of PaaS in their IT strategy. DeployCon 2012, the enterprise PaaS Summit, aims to bridge the gap. DeployCon 2012 will be held at Javits Center in New York on June 13, 2012 and it is co-located with CloudExpo. The one-day conference will feature keyno... (more)

DDN Announces WOS Object Storage Support for Open Compute Project (OCP) Hardware to Enable Efficient and Connected Hyperscale Data Centers

CHATSWORTH, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- DataDirect Networks (DDN™), world leader in massively scalable storage, today announced support for DDN's Web Object Scaler (WOS™), its award-winning hyperscale object storage solution, on the recently announced Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation with the Open Compute Project (OCP). WOS software enables organizations to easily build and deploy their own storage clouds across geographically distributed sites that can scale to unprecedented levels, while still being managed as a single entity. Designed for perform... (more)

Mule ION iPaaS Connects Cloud to On-Premise Apps

MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration in the cloud, and lowering the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and developers. The Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS) connects across cloud-based applications and also connects SaaS to on-premise applications. MuleSoft's Anypoint technology for on-demand API connectivity eliminates the need for copious custom point-to-point code, said MuleSoft. [Disclosure: MuleSoft is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcas... (more)

HP Cloud Now Available In Beta – A First Look

HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released their HP Cloud service in public beta.  Here’s the announcement press release.  The services on offer are: Available Now as Public Beta Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – local distribution of web content. Still in Private Beta Cloud Block Storage – persistent data for compute images Relational Database for MySQL – managed cloud databases There’s also the HP Identity Service for managing key & token access managem... (more)

U.S. Companies View Cloud Computing as Key to Improved Data Protection

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the results of a survey which highlights the appeal of the cloud as an antidote to the chronic loss of data in conventional IT environments. According to the survey commissioned by CA Technologies, more than half (55%) of U.S. organizations expect their use of the cloud to increase as part of their business continuity strategy over the next year. Canadian organizations are starting to make the switch but are less advanced than their American counterparts, with a quarter (23%) reporting they will use the cloud for data protection. The... (more)