March 2015 - Enterprise PaaS Evaluation Guide, Docker and the Slope of Enlightenment, Reshaping Enterprise IT, and Komodo 9 Now Available

ActiveState Newsletter - March 2015 Enterprise PaaS Evaluation Guide In comparison to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has experienced a slower rate of adoption. However, PaaS is coming into its own as evidenced by increased usage and top technology companies such as HP and IBM supporting open source projects like Cloud Foundry by bringing their own PaaS to market. PaaS is important because apps are an important part of our lives. With this relatively new dependency on web and mobile applications, organizations need to find a way to automate their app deployment and management process just to stay in the game. If you are not looking for a way to speed up your pipeline, you can bet that your competition is. And PaaS is a critical component to achieving this.  There are a lot of PaaS offerings (including some that only masquerade as an actual PaaS), so you need to make sure that you are evaluating an enterprise PaaS and not just one that claims to have the functionality "like it." Read More   Happy Birthday Docker. Welcome to the Slope of Enlightenment. It's 2:15pm on a Friday, and I'm sitting in the keynote hall at PyCon 2013 fidgeting through a succession of lightning talks that have very little relevance to my life. Topics like "Python code coverage techniques" (ho-hum) and "Controlling Christmas lights with Python" (yawn - I wonder if there's anything new on Hacker News)...when Solomon Hykes takes the stage, unveils Docker, and the world shifts... Read More   Reshaping Enterprise IT for a New Era Enterprise IT is going through unprecedented change. CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford shares insights on how IT can prepare to meet the challenges and opportunities of their new role. Watch Now   In the Cloud, Virtualization is an Implementation Detail Catch up on all of the great blogs this past month - John Wetherill talks about Bare Metal and the Cloud; Brent Smithurst provides a summary of the March Cloud Foundry Advisory Board meeting; Phil Whelan interviews Alex Jackson about Cloud Foundry's Loggregator; and our devs talk about why they love being a developer. Read More   Stackato Partner Spotlight: HighOps Welcome to our new Partner Spotlight Series! We want to take this opportunity to highlight the great work that our partners do and hopefully introduce you to some cutting edge and innovative companies. Today we are speaking with Marco Abis, founder and CEO of HighOps, an IT operations company providing professional and managed services based in London, England.  Read More   Komodo 9 Released: Better, Stronger, Faster New features include support for Google Go (golang), new Track Changes, a Markdown Viewer, integration with kopy.io, and more. Get it on sale through April 30, or download the 21-day free trial. Learn More   Keep up to date on all ActiveState news! Click here to read the complete newsletter   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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