State of PaaS for the Enterprise

May 24, 2013 | Posted by | No Comments

Like Gartner’s Eric Knipp said this week, “Large enterprises are very interested in the PaaS value proposition,” and he goes on to highlight a number of reasons for resistance of public PaaS implementation.  Public or private, we all agree that many clouds, hybrid or otherwise, will exist; the roots of these clouds should sit on [...]

Apprenda’s Hackathon Blog Series #2

May 23, 2013 | Posted by | No Comments

We’re down to the final 20 or so hours of our 2013 hackathon. In these situations, the best way to figure out if projects are being worked on is by judging the noise level within the office. At the moment I write this, the only sound I hear are my fingers typing on the keyboard, [...]

Apprenda Hackathon blog series #1

May 22, 2013 | Posted by | No Comments

When work piles up, you work long hours, but when a whole team gets together and wants to advance innovation, these power work sessions, otherwise called hackathons are great. This is our third one. Even us upstate New Yorker’s know how to cram multiple projects into three days. Here we are, nearly eight hours in [...]