Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the launch of TIBCO Cloud Bus(TM), its new subscription-based Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering that leverages the company's extensive integration expertise and presents users with the ability to drastically shorten time to market and lower costs as they migrate applications and workloads to the cloud.

"With Cloud Bus(TM), TIBCO is combining the deployment flexibility of the cloud with enterprise-class integration features in a single subscription service that customers can run anywhere -- on-premise, in the cloud, in bare metal or virtualized environments," said Matt Quinn, CTO for TIBCO Software. "TIBCO Cloud Bus provides ready-made integrations across popular SaaS and critical on-premise applications, while allowing subscribers the ability to identify, configure and extend integration templates for their own business context with ease. Finally, and as you would expect from TIBCO, Cloud Bus includes extensive capabilities for real-time integration, meaning changes are reflected in all connected applications as they happen, without waiting for the next batch update."...

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Jordan Novet.

It’s clear that Wal-Mart Stores wants to stay on top as a major online retailer in the United States and abroad, as it takes steps to turn stores into fulfillment centers and bolster its virtual capabilities. What hasn’t been clear is how that transition will look, or how long it will take.

@WalmartLabs gave people a glimpse at its playbook on Tuesday by disclosing in a blog post the acquisition of OneOps, a finalist in the LaunchPad competition at GigaOM’s 2012 Structure conference, as well as Tasty Labs, whose CEO, Joshua Schachter, founded Delicious. Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed...

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Karen Goulart.

When it comes to navigating new cloud territory, many CIOs tend to stick with what they know. But that might not always make for the most beneficial outcomes. There's a sense of safety -- and practicality -- in entrusting a move to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to the same vendor they've partnered with for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). A recent TechTarget survey bears this out. Among respondents to the 2013 Tech Target Cloud Pulse Survey who indicated that they're using some type of PaaS, the top four providers they chose were Google AppEngine, Microsoft Windows Azure, Salesforce.com's Force.com and Amazon Beanstalk.

Choosing a well-known provider is understandable, said Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst with Stamford, Conn-based Gartner, Inc. But while these big names have the benefit of history and established reputations on their side, CIOs who overlook smaller PaaS providers could be missing out on better service and greater, faster innovations. In this SearchCIO.com tip, Natis discusses the relative benefits and reasons companies choose smaller PaaS providers, as well as how to guard assets when working with a startup that may be here today, gone tomorrow (or in a few years)...

Grazed from TechCentral. Author: Editorial Staff.

Platform as a service (PaaS) is sort of the like the red-headed stepchild between the two, providing an application development and hosting platform in the cloud. PaaS in many ways combines elements of infrastructure and software as a service. But recently, Gartner researcher John Rymer, who closely tracks the PaaS market, says the lines between IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are beginning to blur.

Some of the leading IaaS companies, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are adding PaaS-like features to their offerings. AWS has made it easier to deploy and scale applications in its cloud through services like its recently released OpsWorks, as well as Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFront, for example. SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com, meanwhile, is making a big push to promote its integrated PaaS offerings, Force.com and Heroku...

Grazed from Wired. Author: Isabelle Groc.

Just a few blocks away from ActiveState’s office in downtown Vancouver, Mozilla web operations engineer Chris Turra is working hard to fulfill his organization’s mission to keep the web open. Working with his California-based colleague Brandon Burton, Turra is implementing Stackato private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology at Mozilla to help his (now-teenage) organization deploy web applications at scale.

Born and raised in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, Turra is passionate about technology and coffee. He packs his own beans when he travels, and he is an expert when it comes to the nuances of espresso-making. Today he spills the beans about the Mozilla PaaS flavor and talks about the ingredients for achieving success with a PaaS...

Grazed from The Register. Author: Jack Clark.

Platform-as-a-service provider AppFog is evaporating its cloudy bridge to Rackspace due to poor customer demand, in yet another case of the fluffy industry coming to terms with hard business realities. AppFog provides an application infrastructure automation service – otherwise known as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) – that lets devs choose the infrastructure upon which their apps run. The company has decided to curtail support for Rackspace's OpenStack-based cloud due to "low adoption rates," according to an email seen by The Register that was circulated to AppFog customers last week.

"While we believe [multi-cloud support] to be one of our main selling points, it's also become increasingly resource intensive to maintain so many instances of our infrastructure," AppFog CEO Lucas Carlson wrote in the email. "In an effort to keep our service affordable and reliable, we'll be discontinuing support of the Rackspace public cloud due to low adoption rates."...

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Editorial Staff.

Global Micro Solutions has partnered with Apprenda to introduce a new platform as a service (PaaS) cloud offering, intended to help businesses build, manage and deploy next-generation cloud applications. The public PaaS provides a way for customers to scale their massive custom application portfolios, quickly and in a secure cloud environment, says JJ Milner, MD and chief cloud architect for Global Micro.

“Global Micro is the first hosting provider in South Africa to offer Azure Services for Windows,” says Milner. “The Apprenda Platform extends this infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capability with platform as a service. Global Micro is Apprenda’s exclusive delivery partner in Africa and will support the partner and customer community. Apprenda will, in turn, support Global Micro.” The service will help to maximise the productivity of development teams and increase the speed with which updates and new products can be launched...

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Rachel King.

Introduced during a media presentation at Pivotal Labs on Wednesday morning, EMC execs boasted that Pivotal One integrates data fabrics, programming frameworks and support for legacy infrastructures. Some of the typical target uses cases that Pivotal is shooting for include real-time telecommunications and future retail scenarios, large-scale intelligent agriculture, and intelligent industrial control and services utilizing telemetry.

"The short reason for Pivotal's existence is we feel there's a need for a new platform for a new era," said Maritz.
Paul Maritz, formerly CEO of VMware and now at the helm of Pivotal, offered some background about the project, outlining that it is based upon "key assets and people" from across both VMware and EMC...

Cloud computing has been around for years now, and the technology's growth has been driven largely by the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sectors. 

As of now, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) adoption has lagged behind the other two. There are a few reasons for this, most notably that it simply hasn't been around for as long as IaaS and SaaS tools. But another reason for PaaS models' late start is that decision-makers have been waiting for the technology to mature.  Contrary to many people's perception, that time has already arrived, according to TechTarget...