Category Archives: PaaS

RightScale Supports Windows Azure 2.0: Where IaaS Meets PaaS

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

Until now Windows Azure was synonymous with PaaS: Microsoft built a reputation as arguably one of the most successful PaaS providers. This is about to change with Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Azure 2.0, which adds a slew of improvements and … Continue reading →

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Zend publishes PHP PaaS on RightScale

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

It looks like 2011 is shaping up as the year of PaaS and the notion of what a PaaS is is starting to stretch out a bit. I used to think of PaaS as being what Heroku or Google App … Continue reading →

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Cloud Foundry Architecture and Auto-Scaling

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Yesterday’s blog post mostly covered the benefits of VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS and how it fits with RightScale. Today I want to dive a little into the Cloud Foundry architecture and highlight how IaaS and PaaS really are complementary. I’m … Continue reading →

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Launch VMware’s CloudFoundry PaaS using RightScale

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

VMware’s Cloud Foundry release has the potential to be quite a watershed moment for the PaaS world. It provides many of the core pieces that are needed to build a PaaS in an open source form — VMware has put … Continue reading →

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