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

Fredric Paul, publisher and editor-in-chief, wrote an article on bMighty.com about how while Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is mostly geared towards software developers, it is making it easier to create programs, and thus promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies.
By now, everyone knows the value of software as a service (SaaS) to small and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Despite losing a major sponsor just days before the Office 2.0 Conference on Sept 3-5 in San Francisco, the organizers managed to hustle and still get the show together. However they still need more paying registrations to make up for the loss of the sponsor. Check out their blog.
At the conference, LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya, [...]

Robert Scoble of FastCompany.TV talks to LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya about a range of topics including what applications moving into the Cloud, i.e. PaaS, mean for IT and about his company.

When Terry Childs, a disgruntled network administrator, held the city of San Francisco hostage from getting into their computer systems, records such as officials’ emails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates’ bookings were inaccessible by they city — virtually shutting down operations.
This makes yet another case for SaaS and Cloud Computing [...]

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 [...]