Running your Own PaaS and Avoiding the “Management Tax”

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As you might have heard, last week we joined the System Center Alliance at MMS 2012. This was an important milestone and re-affirms our commitment to providing the best of breed platform for .NET PaaS.  Much of the discussion around PaaS justifiably focuses on apps. As a run-anywhere PaaS software solution, it’s also critical to our customers that we provide the right set of tools and integration to actually implement and operate the Apprenda PaaS on the infrastructure ...

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ADVICE: What You Should Look For In An Application Platform – A Developer’s Perspective

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In the same way that virtualization changed the way that the industry views infrastructure, application platforms like Apprenda aim to do the same for the way you think about application deployment and management. Regardless if you are looking for publishing to a public or private cloud you should expect certain things from the platform you run your applications on. So what should you look for in an application platform as a developer?

As a developer my ADVICE would consist of:

ACCESSIBLE - The platform must ...

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Five Guidelines to Implementing Private PaaS!

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I recently wrote a piece that was published on Datamation that outlines 5 guidelines for implementing private PaaS in the Enterprise. Check it out here!

What do you think?

If you’d like to mingle with others in the Cloud space, the Apprenda group on LinkedIn now has 4200+ members and is growing every day; make sure you’ re not missing out and join today!

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Class is in Session: Will You PaaS or Fail?

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Tomorrow I’ll (@mattammerman) be kicking off Apprenda’s PaaS or Fail Webinar Series, along with Product Manager Dan Turkenkopf (@dturkenk). We’ll be starting the series with “PaaS or Fail: Preparing For Your Changing Role In Software Development and Delivery”. In this webinar, which we’ve geared specifically toward software developers, I’ll be discussing what a Platform-as-a-Service is, why Fortune 500 companies are choosing them, and how PaaS technology positively affects the enterprise software developer.

Dan and I will then be ...

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Virtualization Adoption Lessons Applied to PaaS

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Having a front row seat as a market defines itself and accelerates quickly from science project to mainstream is exhilarating. It’s one of the key reasons that I joined Apprenda a few weeks ago after spending nearly 10 years at Microsoft working on enterprise software where I had a similar opportunity to participate in the emergence of virtualization. One key lesson that I walked away with from that experience was this: The tactical benefits achieved in early adoption of a ...

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PaaS as an Enabler for Innovation

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Much of reason that cloud computing has caught on is that it removes IT roadblocks from solving business problems. If you can embrace these new cloud capabilities and paradigms you enable your IT organization to focus more of their energy on solving problems, creating new value streams and innovating within the business. This video looks at how we’ve evolved the IT model and how PaaS opens the door to increased innovation.

As always, please share your thoughts and questions. ...

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MAR
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Multi-tenancy and what it means to you

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Multi-tenancy is a core theme in all aspects of cloud computing. In this video we walk through the different layers of cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), illustrate their tenancy models and discuss the benefits each brings to the table.

Please share your thoughts and questions. If you have other topics you’d like to see covered let us know in the comments or on twitter.

 

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Apprenda & The PaaS Runtime Model: Show Me the Money

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For anyone that’s seen Jerry Maguire, the “Show me the money” scene is arguably one of the best (or at least most repeated!) movie scenes in the past 20 years. Rod (the customer) tells Jerry ...

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Achieving Maximum Resource Efficiency Using PaaS

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Next up in our series, this video compares a typical virtualized application stack to PaaS and explains how PaaS improves the operational efficiency of your application infrastructure.

Please share your thoughts and questions. If you have other topics you’d like to see covered let us know in the comments or on twitter.

 

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Enterprise Private PaaS Discussion with Dell

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Just yesterday, Stephen Spector, Cloud Evangelist from Dell published a recorded conversation with Sinclair Schuller (CEO at Apprenda) and Dan Turkenkopf (Product Manager at Apprenda). It was a great conversation, definitely worth checking out.

Here’s a breakdown of the highlights, along with a link to the original post on Stephen’s blog:

Apprenda Is an OS Layer for the Datacenter — Sinclair Schuller

00:00 — Introductions from Sinclair and Dan from Apprenda
01:00 — Tell us about Apprenda and its history
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