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LongJump CEO and Co-Founder Named One of 25 Technology Thought Leaders

Friday, January 22, 2010 15:34 1 Comment

ChannelWeb has named our CEO Pankaj Malviya one of the top 25 Technology Thought Leaders. Specifically, editors were most impressed that:
“Malviya is breaking new ground in the cloud computing market with LongJump, an innovative software company with an end-to-end cloud platform. The LongJump offering is winning raves from solution providers for its flexibility and firepower. [...]

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Leading Analyst Firm Names LongJump to Magic Quadrant

Monday, November 30, 2009 3:48 No Comments

The LongJump platform made its debut on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Applications Servers. Incidentally, we were one of only two PaaS-capable platforms to be featured, and the only one which could operate as a PaaS and on-premise. Pankaj Malviya, CEO and Founder of LongJump, had this to say:
“We believe LongJump’s placement in Gartner’s Magic [...]

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Rick McEachern Named 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 13:18 No Comments

The editors at ChannelWeb recently named LongJump Chairman, EVP and Co-Founder Rick McEachern as one of their Most Innovative Executives of 2009.

According to ChannelWeb:
The people who made CRN’s list of the Top 25 Most Innovative Executives of 2009 put big profits into solution provider pockets with breakthrough products and channel programs that cover the most [...]

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A Cloud Burst Of Activity At XChange Tech Innovators

Friday, November 20, 2009 15:39 No Comments

Steven Burke of ChannelWeb summarized the major topic at this year’s XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas. Can you guess? Cloud. Specifically how can the solution provider channel leverage the Cloud as part of their suite of product and service offerings.
Says Burke:
“It’s not too early to call 2010 as the year of the cloud [...]

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VARs and Solution Providers Select LongJump as Most Innovative Technology

Friday, November 20, 2009 11:54 2 Comments

This week at the XChange Tech Innovators Conference in Las Vegas, LongJump received an award voted on by attendees as the Most Innovative Technology. LongJump’s award was the result of a vote by the most influential VARs and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who were attending the event.
According to Nancy Hammervik, senior vice president, events, Everything [...]

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

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:49 No Comments

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s0.addVariable(“height”,”360″);
s0.addVariable(“playlist”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“width”,”500″);
s0.addVariable(“autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“bufferlength”,”10″);
s0.addVariable(“displayclick”,”play”);
s0.addVariable(“icons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“linktarget”,”_blank”);
s0.addVariable(“mute”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“quality”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“repeat”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“resizing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“stretching”,”uniform”);
s0.addVariable(“volume”,”90″);
s0.addVariable(“file”,”http://s3.amazonaws.com/longjump_media/saas.flv”);
s0.write(“video0″);

We produced a video articulating what companies that want to build SaaS solutions in the Cloud need to focus on to successfully deliver applications on the web. For a deeper dive, you can also view our presentation on “The Strategy for Bringing SaaS Applications [...]

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LongJump CEO Video Shoot

Monday, June 29, 2009 9:12 No Comments

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was in San Francisco last week for a video shoot. We won’t go into details about what we were shooting, but we do think the video will go a long way to articulating our vision and value proposition for the LongJump platform.

We feel like our product is starting to take off. [...]

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LongJump Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:21 No Comments

Gartner has named LongJump one of it’s Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure for 2009. Below is an excerpt of the report available to Gartner research subscribers:
Why Cool: LongJump is a cloud application infrastructure service provider delivering an application-platform-as-a-service (APaaS) offering. The company also has a history as a CRM vendor and [...]

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Webware 100 Nominees Are in and LongJump Made the Cut

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:33 No Comments

LongJump’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product for on-demand application creation, has been selected as a finalist by the editors at Webware.com, a CNET site, for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the category of Infrastructure and Storage. In each of the Webware 100 categories, there are 30 finalists, and from that list will include 10 winners selected [...]

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Coghead’s PaaSing

Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:13 5 Comments

It was revealed last night by TechCrunch that one of our platform-as-a-service competitors ran out of funding and is closing its doors. While on one hand it is heartening to see someone in your space, who has done a commendable job helping to bring attention to the space, take such an unfortunate turn, it has [...]

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