Of all the infrastructure trends during the fourth quarter, the biggest might be the changing shape of the data center market. An area once comprising separate vendors for separate functions now… Read more »
We found out today that Microsoft Windows Azure officially will support Ruby on Rails, which raises questions about how smaller, Ruby-only platforms like Heroku and Engine Yard will be affected. Because… Read more »
Om has a great post on GigaOM today about the rapid growth of Heroku, which he reports now hosts more than 40,000 applications. Although its Ruby on Rails focus is not… Read more »
Despite all the criticism being bandied about in the IT press, cloud computing appears to be doing just fine. Yes, it needs to be more secure, reliability needs to improve, it… Read more »
It is nice to see Heroku is doing well, today announcing ever-increasing monthly sales since it became publicly available in April and a customer base that has doubled in size since… Read more »
Heroku will unveil tomorrow the commercial version of its Ruby-focused cloud platform, which — in a world full of management interfaces, configuration files and provisioning policies — virtually eliminates the need… Read more »
Many operational clouds, such as Amazon Web Services, still require their customers to corral their own machines, however virtual. On the other hand, development clouds like Salesforce.com or Google’s App Engine… Read more »