Archive for July, 2009

New Video for Service Providers Looking to Build SaaS Solutions in the Cloud

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:49 No Comments

Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = { ‘id’: ‘video0′, ‘name’: ‘video0′}; var flashvars = { ‘file’ : ‘http://s3.amazonaws.com/longjump_media/saas.flv’, ‘image’ : ‘http://www.longjump.com/saas-strategy/saas-video-preview.png’, ‘width’ : ’400′, ‘height’ : ’280′, ‘controlbar’ : ‘bottom’, ‘dock’ : ‘false’, ‘icons’ : ‘true’, ‘logo.hide’ : ‘false’, [...]

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The Hype around Cloud Computing, APaaS and SEAP

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 15:07 No Comments

Gartner is tracking the hype around Cloud Computing in their latest report “Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2009″ and cloud computing’s path towards mainstream acceptance. In particular, it looked at APaaS (Application Platform as a Service) and suggests that it is a transformational technology that is only 2 to 5 years from being adopted by [...]

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The 451 Group Examines LongJump’s Private Cloud Computing Potential

Monday, July 13, 2009 0:01 No Comments

China Martens of the 451 Group provided an in-depth Market Insight Service report discussing LongJump and its potential as a PaaS provider inside and outside the corporate firewall. The 451 Group also provided a comprehensive look at where LongJump is in relation to other cloud computing companies and a fairly complete review of the company’s [...]

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RedMonk’s Michael Coté Talks about Developing for the Cloud with LongJump

Monday, July 6, 2009 8:40 1 Comment

Michael Coté, one of the analysts at RedMonk talked with LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya about platform-as-a-service on the cloud. He writes: Back in February, LongJump started providing their platform to ISVs packaged to be used as a private PaaS, where “private” means “run on your own,” just as “private cloud” does. That is, these ISVs [...]

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Who are the top Cloud Computing acquisition targets?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:38 1 Comment

James Maguire over at Datamation listed his seven top cloud computing acquisition targets: companies that are “desirable choices” for the “giants” of the industry. Among his targets, Maguire includes IaaS provider GoGrid, cloud enabler Enomaly, storage service provider Vaultscape, cloud manager RightScale, virtualization appliance provider AppZero, application manager Elastra, and our very own application platform [...]

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