The cloud computing marketplace continues its rapid acceleration in terms of new offerings as well as innovative solutions. One such area that is just getting ready to explode is the private/hybrid platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model. I recently had the opportunity to do an audio interview with Sinclair Schuller, the CEO of Apprenda, a leader in the next generation of cloud computing companies delivering sophisticated PaaS solutions for large enterprises.

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Cloud computing seems to be everywhere we look these days, from successful SaaS companies to infrastructure as a service providers like Amazon. In particular, there’s been a lot of activity around Platform as a Service (PaaS) and private PaaS. As activity starts to increase and more options are available in the market, it becomes harder to evaluate the choices.

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Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is receiving a lot of attention lately, and rightly so. The great potential of PaaS cannot be ignored, and it seems that the attendees at this week’s Cloud Connect at the Santa Clara Convention Center couldn’t agree more. While PaaS was only featured in just a few presentations last year, it is overwhelmingly present in this year’s agenda.

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Brian Gracely and Clint Greenwood talk to Sinclair Shuller, Founder/CEO of Apprenda to talk about their PaaS platform for .NET applications. We talk about the evolution of PaaS, the evolution of IT and where PaaS will evolve in 2012.

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The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate versus private clouds goes something like this: Only the public cloud can provide the scalability to meet burgeoning data environments, so private clouds are a waste of money that limit you to your own finite infrastructure. Ah, but what fun we can have with that infrastructure once it takes on the trappings of the cloud.

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There are some fundamental facts of business IT life as it stands today, one of which is that many businesses, from the smallest to the largest, have built their IT resources on the Microsoft stack. For them, this represents a huge investment in not only applications but IP that extends from software code to business processes.

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Apprenda, the open Platform as a Service (PaaS) stack provider, has released version 3.0 of its free platform offering, Apprenda Express. The free PaaS solution is now fully-functional, something that Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller said that customers had been requesting.

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