Apprenda backs a private PaaS for companies running Java and Windows applications. It’s adding JBoss and Tomcat support for deeper integration with popular Java workloads. Read more »
Apcera attacks a huge problem — promising to give big companies a means to develop, deploy and manage workloads with compliance and policy baked in. Now it has new funding to… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal reports that EMC and HP seriously discussed a “merger of equals,” but talks broke down over fear that shareholders would not swallow the deal. Read more »
Cloudbees wants to be known as “the Enterprise Jenkins company” as it transitions its PaaS customers to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Google App Engine, or elsewhere. Read more »
The week in cloud: The word of late is if you’re not doing “mobile” you’re not doing development. So Pivotal Cloud Foundry, like every other PaaS, is adding mobile-specific services. Read more »
Last year, General Electric invested $105 million in Pivotal; Now it’s starting to deploy Pivotal’s big data analytics capabilities both in house and to buyers of its jet engines. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Andrew Clay Shafer talks about his new gig at Pivotal, his issues with OpenStack, and updates us on why incubators still suck. Read more »
EMC’s CEO has not met with activist investor Elliott Management yet, but when he does, he’ll likely argue that breaking up (the federation) is hard, and the wrong thing to do. Read more »
Andrew Clay Shafer knows his way around devops, agile development, and continuous delivery. That makes him a nice fit to talk about how all the pieces of Pivotal can make a… Read more »
Elliott Management will use its $1 billion stake in EMC to push for change and divestiture of federation companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more »