Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

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 SaaS [...]

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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,
“LongJump [...]

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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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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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Extensive Look at Platform-as-a-Service Vendors from Forrester

Thursday, April 2, 2009 8:38 No Comments

Led by John Rymer, Forrester’s research team including Randy Heffner, Jeffrey S. Hammond, James Staten, and Wallis Yu, provided an extensive report entitled “Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options” on several PaaS vendors, including LongJump. The report discusses the rewards and risks of PaaS for application development and includes products up and [...]

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Standardizing Cloud Computing

Thursday, February 26, 2009 23:22 1 Comment

The tech media’s reaction to Coghead’s folding has bubbled up the perception that suddenly we cloud computing and platform-as-a-service vendors need to look at standardization, because businesses need to be able to move their “stuff” over from one vendor to another. While this is certainly an understandable desire, especially for those left in a lurch [...]

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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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SaaS – Acceptance is the Last Stage of Grief

Friday, February 6, 2009 10:09 No Comments

When something long standing and codependent dies, like traditional computing, SaaS and cloud computing are going to be our best friends at the wake.
SaaS solutions have been around for going on 10 years now and the time is right to see broader and deeper adoption of this approach to application development and utilization. Lower risk processes [...]

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