Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Javelin and Relay Media Coverage Roundup

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:45 No Comments

The advent of social (Relay) and mobile (Javelin) interfaces to LongJump’s PaaS and Online Database solutions has gotten some good write-ups by members of the technology journalists. Here’s a sample of who’s covered the release. David Carr at InformationWeek talked about how “customers will be able to add social media features to their applications, and [...]

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RWW: 8 Simple Ways To Share Data Online

Friday, June 17, 2011 11:13 No Comments

David Strom over at ReadWriteWeb has a great primer on the range of online database tools on the web. Some of the benefits include: The process is very straightforward: you either copy and paste data or take your spreadsheet and upload it to the service, after creating accounts for you and your collaborators. Then you [...]

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10 Excellent REST Resources

Monday, December 6, 2010 13:10 2 Comments

Roy Fielding’s REST-style architecture is brilliantly simple and adaptable, but it can be difficult finding comprehensive information on how to apply its concepts or get help from the development community. There are many great resources for developers or even those with some basic web development skills to learn and apply REST APIs to their front-end [...]

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Multitenancy – Still Top of Mind for SaaS Businesses

Thursday, November 18, 2010 15:40 3 Comments

You may argue the difference between SaaS and the Cloud — about how one is a technology and the other is market-ese — but one factor you cannot argue about anymore is how multitenancy must be the basis for SaaS business software going forward. In September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, at their conference Oracle OpenWorld, [...]

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ChannelWeb: Public Clouds Vs. Private Clouds: Where Are The Opportunities?

Friday, February 5, 2010 11:36 1 Comment

ChannelWeb today posted an article on the opportunities in the cloud as they relate to public and private clouds. This discussion hearkens back to the old days when we were still debating if anyone would ever want to run their applications on the web. What year was that? 2002? But there is clear trend towards [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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LongJump 6.2 Platform Release Offers Cloud Applications Greater Flexibility and Visibility

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 5:05 No Comments

Our latest LongJump release (version 6.2) has hit the cloud with something desperately needed in today’s business application space: Flexibility and Visibility. Flexibility in the way that information is displayed and visibility into a deeper set of information and analysis. Many of today’s cloud applications come out of the gate serving a basic set of [...]

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