Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) by LongJump

In a recent article by Telephony Online, entitled ASP to SAAS to Clouds — Oh my!, Rich Karpinski looked at how service providers are attempting to offer cloud-based solutions as part of their menu of services to their endpoint clients.
So how hard could it be for those same service providers to deliver network-based apps, be [...]

The fundamentals of IT economics are not strong.
We have heard from dozens of IT organizations charged with building web-based business applications for their constituents that meeting all of their needs is simply not possible. This is why IT silos and rogue/situational applications occur. LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya discussed this in The Long Tail of IT.
Yet many [...]

When selecting business software and applications, it’s important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem?

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya wrote an article on the “Seven Key Requirements Corporate IT Needs from PaaS” for TechCrunchIT and it was featured today.
In it, Pankaj discusses how cloud computing initiatives are gaining momentum with businesses of all sizes, particularly with enterprises that are looking to adopt the right solutions to address their ongoing business [...]

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was a featured guest on the PricewaterhouseCoopers Start Up Show hosted by Steve Bengston September 25th. Pankaj and Steve discussed how Platform-as-a-Service as an organizational application development platform and the future of cloud computing can help businesses improve their IT services.
He talked about the need for PaaS, benefits, state of the industry and [...]

The release of our Developer Suite received some great feedback from the media. Our standards-based approach, leveraging a Java-based development environment complete with a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), means developers can use their existing skill set and without having to learn new code and thus build apps faster.
Martin Heller of Infoworld comments in “Cloud application [...]

Rapidly Design, Develop and Deploy Custom Enterprise Applications, Lower Development Costs and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Sunnyvale, CA, Monday, September 22, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, today unveiled its LongJump Development Suite for developers eager to exploit the business opportunities and advantages of Internet-based application development and delivery. LongJump’s developer suite reflects the growing interest [...]

As part of our continued efforts to evangalize PaaS, we will be hosing a webinar, “PaaS Applications: What Every IT Organization Needs to Know”. This webinar is primarily intended for IT executives, we will discuss: 

Basic concepts of PaaS, e.g. benefits, technology, potential risks and hurdles, etc.
Applications suitable for PaaS
Roadmap for successful adoption and integration
Q&A

Date:
Wed., Sept. 24, 2008
Time:
8am [...]

As noted in an earlier blog post below, we were at the Office 2.0 Conference, where LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya, participated in a panel discussion along with representatives from Salesforce and Zoho.
The panel discussed how PaaS addresses the Long Tail of IT applications where vendors like Oracle, SAP are not focusing. IT, despite being resource [...]

Our CEO, Pankaj Malviya, has been published on GigaOm recently discussing the how IT and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solutions can work hand in hand.
Below is the complete article:
The Long Tail of IT
Pankaj Malviya, June 25, 2008
Everyone who has worked in — or even with — an IT department knows that the demand for projects always exceeds [...]