Archive for the ‘Platform-as-a-Service’ Category

LongJump One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Companies According to ChannelWeb

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 16:06 1 Comment

ChannelWeb has recognized LongJump as one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Companies, positioning it with the likes of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. This comes on the heels of last week’s naming of LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya to their list of Top 25 Technology Thought Leaders. As indicated by ChannelWeb,
“LongJump [...]

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PaaS for VARs is the Real Cloud Opportunity

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 16:19 3 Comments

Scott Dahlgren at The VAR Guy posted an article today about how VARs, solution providers, MSPs and others in the IT channel can really capitalize on cloud computing. Specifically he looks at how the PaaS model presents the widest opportunity for the channel to be involved in the cloud. He states:
The current trend is improving [...]

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Take Down These SaaS Walls

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 15:11 3 Comments

Mike Vizard at CTOEdge had a thoughtful post regarding the challenges facing IT in determining how much to rely on software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms to deliver applications versus running those applications on their own internal infrastructure. He adds:
The real question IT organizations might want to ask themselves in 2010 is why they have to make this [...]

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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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CEO of LongJump Discusses Cloud Application Platforms at SIIA OnDemand

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 13:11 No Comments

Pankaj Malviya, CEO of LongJump was at SIIA OnDemand in San Jose last week to showcase the LongJump cloud applications platform. While public and private cloud infrastructure may be top mind, the applications that sit in that cloud also need a revolutionary strategy. LongJump presents a streamlined approach to application development that leverages the shared [...]

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New Case Study: How LongJump Enabled AMLG to Help Homeowners During the Mortgage Crisis

Monday, October 19, 2009 14:26 No Comments

Be sure to visit our website to read about how American Mitigation Law Group, a loan modification company in Del Mar, California is helping homeowners keep their homes during the mortgage crisis. We spoke with Nick Hasselwander at AMLG about how they are using the LongJump platform and CRM to build a complete mitigation workflow [...]

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LongJump Announces Reseller Program Empowering VARs To Launch Their Own Branded SaaS Business

Monday, October 19, 2009 13:59 5 Comments

VAR Program Enables Resellers, Solution Providers and Managed Service Providers to Profit from Recurring Revenues by Delivering Cloud-Based Applications
GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo, Orlando, FL, October 19, 2009 – LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced a value added reseller (VAR) program for its LongJump Cloud Applications Platform from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. LongJump’s [...]

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Dr. Dobb’s: The Many Flavors of Platform Services for Cloud Computing

Saturday, October 3, 2009 14:36 No Comments

Database and technology analyst Ken North examines how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions help accelerate adoption of the cloud model within organizations. As we have indicated many times ourselves, and Mr. North comes to a similar conclusion:
PaaS solutions have particular appeal for startups, projects with ambitious deadlines, and organizations with a limited budget for capital expenditures. PaaS [...]

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PaaS Moves into Private Clouds for Enterprises

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:08 No Comments

Steve Bobrowski at The Cloud Option has an insightful post today looking at the evolution of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) into the enterprise. Specifically, he discusses the movement into private cloud environments. According to Bobrowski:
PaaS allows application developers to simply build applications in the cloud, without ever having to worry about hardware acquisition and configuration, software installation, [...]

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AppGap Takes a Look at Our Comprehensive On-Premise, Private Cloud-Based Application Platform

Thursday, August 6, 2009 9:20 No Comments

Bill Ives of theAppGap took an extensive look at LongJump’s application platform recently. The article looks at how LongJump is able to help businesses quickly build an object model, add processing, reporting, and even extend applications using industry standard development tools such as Java. According to Bill:
I can certainly see the benefit fit of using [...]

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