Stackato 3.4 Released; Using PaaS to Enable Microservices

Hi sherly, Welcome to our September newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: News Recommended Blogs Upcoming Events Webinars We're Hiring! Best Regards,  The ActiveState Team   News Stackato 3.4 Released! With the release of Stackato 3.4, you can now build your own cluster using up to 20GB of RAM running on your own infrastructure or public cloud. The cluster can be used for internal testing or in production for FREE. Download the Stackato Micro Cloud and sign up for your Stackato Cluster license. Learn more about the new 20GB Stackato Cluster as well as the latest functionality in Stackato 3.4, Application Rollback and Versioning (quickly and safely test the new features of you application - deploying to production will never be the same again!) Watch the recording of the webinar What's new in Stackato 3.4 to learn more. SysAdmin Appreciation Day Did you know that July 25 was System Administrator Appreciation Day? In honor of SysAdmins, we took to the streets to ask the general public for their thoughts. We asked: Do you know what a SysAdmin does? Check out the video for the answers. Keynotes and Talks by Cloud Expert Bernard Golden Bernard Golden will be speaking at several upcoming events and we hope to see you. For more information or to request for Bernard to speak at your organization or event, visit his speaking engagements page. September 17th speaking at DataWeek + API World, San Francisco: “IoT and Cloud Computing — Building Apps to Meet the Coming Data Deluge”. September 18th participating in a panel discussion on "Current and Future PaaS Trends" at Cloud Standards Customer Council: Preparing for the Post-IaaS Phase of Cloud Adoption. September 30th chairing workshop at CloudConnect / Interop, New York: “Cloud Applications: The Next Generation”. Attendees can expect to learn what’s on the frontier of cloud applications from world-class experts some of whom include Brent Smithurst, VP of Product Management at ActiveState, Sravish Sridhar, Founder & CEO of Kinvey and Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Windows Azure at Microsoft. October 2nd keynote at CloudConnect / Interop, New York: “Working With, Not Against, Developers and Business Units to Succeed in the Cloud”. October 14th speaking at IEEE DevOps Symposium, Los Angeles: “DevOps Throughout the Application Lifecycle”. October 21st speaking at Encounters with Virtualization and the Cloud (Rencontres des Virtualisations et du Cloud), Paris: “Cloud Computing and Applications — Completing the Vision of Virtualization”.  October 28th keynote at the IT Cloud Computing Conference (IC3), San Francisco: “Achieving the Full Potential of Cloud Computing”. InformationWeek, ZDNet, InfoWorld, The Stack and more: ActiveState in Recent News Check out Bernard Golden’s latest CIO article, “Is Amazon Web Services Really Down and Out?” Media coverage of Stackato and ActiveState has been continuous for the month of August and we’d like to share some of the articles:  Alice MacGregor. “Interview with cloud expert Bernard Golden, VP Strategy at ActiveState.” The Stack, August 27, 2014. Charles Babcock. “PaaS Debate Heats Up At Interop.” InformationWeek, August 21, 2014. Gary MacFadden. “Cloud Innovators Create a Body and Soul for Big Data.” Parity Research, August 18, 2014. Joe McKendrick. “How to introduce DevOps into a moribund corporate culture.” ZDNet, August 14, 2014. Martin Heller. “PaaS shoot-out: Cloud Foundry vs. OpenShift.” InfoWorld, August 13, 2014.  Adrian Bridgwater. “Free Access To Stackato 20GB Cluster In Production.” Dr. Dobbs, August 5, 2014. David Delony. “ActiveState Releases Stackato Version 3.4.” TMCnet InfoTech Feature, August 5, 2014. Howard Solomon. “Vancouver firm updates software development environment.” IT World Canada, August 1, 2014. Richard Harris. “ActiveState's Stackato PaaS Now Provides Free 20GB Cluster For Your Apps.” App Developer Magazine, August 1, 2014.   Recommended Blogs The Road To DevOps by Phil Whelan PaaS Services Roundup (Featuring Stackato and Cloud Foundry) by Brent Smithurst Microservices and PaaS - Part II by John Wetherill  Microservices and PaaS - Part I by John Wetherill  DevOps: Tools Vs Culture by Phil Whelan Report from OSCON: Open Source and the Enterprise by Bernard Golden Get out of the Weeds by John Wetherill  Check Out More Blog Posts >   Upcoming Events Interop New York - Sep 29 to Oct 3 (New York, NY) Join us at Interop New York collocating with Cloud Connect East. We look forward to participating with Bernard Golden chairing the “Cloud Applications: The Next Generation” and Brent Smithurst is a panel member of this workshops. Bernard will also be providing the keynote ““Working With, Not Against, Developers and Business Units to Succeed in the Cloud”. Come visit us at booth 449 for a live demo of Stackato. iTech Conference - Oct 9 (Vancouver, BC) An event right in our backyard! iTech Conferences are well known across Canada and you can meet the Stackato team at iTech's Annual Conference in Vancouver. Register before 26th September to attend for free. Get your tickets here. IT Cloud Computing Conference - Oct 27 - 28 (San Francisco, CA) Get trained on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and the newest DevOps strategies at the IT Cloud Computing Conference (IC3), October 27-28 in San Francisco. Bernard Golden will be keynoting at this inaugural conference dedicated to technical content and training for leading cloud platforms. Register now. We'll be at many more events. Check out our Events Calendar to see where we'll be!  Webinars Microservices Not Monoliths: Using PaaS to Enable a Microservices Architecture featuring ActiveState Technology Evangelists Phil Whelan and John Wetherill  Wed, Sep 17, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT Cloud computing requires a new approach to the application development process. Rapid software delivery is critical factor for success--companies need to focus on streamlining and removing the friction. In order to meet the fast pace of innovation enabled by cloud computing, a microservices approach to application design has emerged. Join ActiveState's Technology Evangelists, John Wetherill and Phil Whelan as they discuss using PaaS to enable a microservices architecture.  Register here. Webinars On Demand Looking for some videos to learn how the Cloud, PaaS or Stackato can help you or your company? Start off with our latest webinar, DevOps and the Cloud: Achieving Faster Application Delivery, and work your way through our webinar library (they are all completely FREE!). Here are some of our featured webinars: What's new in Stackato 3.4 featuring Phil Whelan and John Wetherill, Technology Evangelists, ActiveState 10 Steps to the Cloud featuring Phil Whelan, Technology Evangelist and Troy Topnik, Technical Communications Manager, ActiveState Workload Portability: Using PaaS to Achieve the Vision of Hybrid Cloud featuring Bernard Golden, Vice President of Strategy, ActiveState Bringing Your Legacy Apps to the Cloud featuring Phil Whelan, Technology Evangelist, ActiveState and Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer, ActiveState Orchestrating Docker Across Your Cloud featuring Phil Whelan, Technology Evangelist, ActiveState and Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer, ActiveState View More Webinars > We're Hiring! As the title says, we are looking for more awesome Activators (Ac·ti·va·tors [ak-tuh-vey-tors]: Talented, creative people, developing innovative and cutting-edge solutions one line of code at a time) to join our team. Looking for an exciting career and challenges to keep you driven? Click here to see our openings.   Keep up with the latest information about Stackato and ActiveState

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