Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 19, 2011
I’ve been recently involved helping a new European start-up just launched a new Platform-as-a-Service capable of running and automatically scaling any Java application. Here’s a quick write-up on why I think Jelastic is really onto something, a service to try and a company to watch. Say, you’ve got a great Java application which you want [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 11, 2011
With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure – Microsoft’s platform as a service. Here’s my uneducated [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 10, 2009
“APaaS: A Step to a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing?” is a great report by Yefim V. Natis and Eric Knipp published by Gartner last week. Yefim and Eric, as it seems to me, managed to articulate the very essence of what makes Cloud Computing so disruptive: “Easy to learn and use application development environment, [...]