Stackato gets the Gold, IC3: Inaugural Cloud & DevOps Conference and Summer reads

Hi sherly, Welcome to our Special Summer Edition newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: Hot News Summer Reading List - The New Kingmakers Stackato Roadtrips Stackato Summer Blockbusters We're Hiring! Best Regards,  The ActiveState Team Hot News ActiveState Wins Gold for best Platform as a Service ActiveState is proud to have been recognized by Network Products Guide at their 9th Annual Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. ActiveState Stackato was announced as a Gold winner in the best Platform as a Service (PaaS) category on June 23 in San Francisco. The awards recognize achievements in all facets of the IT industry. View the complete list of winners here.  Samantha Singh accepts the Gold award on behalf of ActiveState. Learn more. IC3: AWS, Google Cloud, Chef, Puppet and Stackato at one training conference  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. This is the first conference dedicated to technical content and training for leading cloud platforms.   See keynotes from Matt Wood, General Manager Data Science, AWS and Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState. Participate in hands-on labs to develop your own proof of concept. Register now at http://icee3.com/.   Cloud computing expert Bernard Golden: upcoming talks Bernard Golden will be speaking at conferences in the US through October 2014 with a brief stopover in Paris. Visit Bernard's speaking engagements page for more information or to request him to speak at your organization or event. DevOps and the Future of Cloud Computing: August 11, Pacific Crest Security Global Technology Leadership Forum, Vail, Colorado IoT and Cloud Computing — Building Apps to Meet the Coming Data Deluge: September 17, DataWeek + API World, San Francisco  Cloud Applications: The Next Generation: September 30, CloudConnect/Interop Working With, Not Against, Developers and Business Units to Succeed in the Cloud: October 02, CloudConnect/Interop DevOps Throughout the Application Lifecycle: October 14, IEEE DevOps Symposium, Los Angeles Cloud Computing and Applications — Completing the Vision of Virtualization: October 21, Encounters with Virtualization and the Cloud (Rencontres des Virtualisations et du Cloud), Paris Achieving the Full Potential of Cloud Computing: October 28, IC3, San Francisco Summer Reading List - The New Kingmakers The New Kingmakers  Bernard Golden reviews The New Kingmakers and succinctly summarizes why developers and IT are no longer a back office concern. If you are wondering how developers and software have shifted the paradigm and what this means for the future of business, definitely add this to your summer reading list! Read Bernard's review here. Blog Highlights:   5 Common Barriers When Introducing DevOps by Ho Ming Li Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting - 2014 June by Kathy Thomas Consul for Service Discovery - Mitchell Hashimoto Explains by Phil Whelan Two Factors to Docker's Success by Ho Ming Li Stackato and Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry by Jeff Hobbs The Status Quo is Killing Innovation by Kathy Thomas libswarm - Docker Orchestration Announced by Phil Whelan Check Out More Blog Posts > Stackato Summer Roadtrips DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Jul 17 to 18 (Minneapolis, MN) DevOpsDays is coming to the University of St. Thomas in downtown Minneapolis. ActiveState is proud to be a Gold Sponsor. Come visit us! We're happy to discuss the inner workings of Stackato, and how it differs from other DevOps tools such as Chef and Puppet. Register here. DevOpsDays Boston - Aug 18 to 19 (Boston, MA) We're also a Gold Sponsor for DevOps Days Boston at the Microsoft NERD Center. Registration will open soon with an est. cost of $100, though we might have extra tickets. We're thrilled to visit Boston for the first time! VMWorld 2014 - Aug 24 - 28 (San Francisco, CA) Catch us at VMWorld, the year's largest virtualization event. Join us and other VMware partners as we present the latest developments in the VMware ecosystem. We'll be providing live demos at booth #319. We'll be at many more events. Check out our Events Calendar to see where we'll be!  Stackato Summer Blockbusters Looking for some videos to learn how the Cloud, PaaS or Stackato can help you or your company? Start off with our latest webinar, 10 Steps to the Cloud and work your way through our webinar library (they are all completely FREE!). Here are some of our featured webinars: 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 Improving Application Reliability and Security with Stackato 3.2 featuring John Wetherill, Technology Evangelist, ActiveState and Phil Whelan, Technology Evangelist, ActiveState See 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. 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Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting - 2014 June

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState: Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting - 2014 June The Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board started the session focussing on the Cloud Foundry Summit held in San Francisco earlier this month. Overall, the feedback about the conference was very positive. Cornelia Davis summed it up best, "The conference was really great...the energy was tremendous. The tidal wave that you could feel from the momentum around Cloud Foundry and the Cloud foundry community was palpable there." A big thank you to everyone who organized the event! Other items discussed in the meeting included voting on various projects to be moved to/from the incubator, an update on the activities of the different open source project teams, Diego and the next Cloud Foundry release. Cloud Foundry Summit 2014 The CAB meeting opened a discussion around the summit and in obtaining feedback about what could be improved for next next time. Overall, everyone felt that it was a great conference with more than 900 people in attendance over the three days. This was a bigger number than last year's and is a testament to the growing interest in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Read More   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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Two Factors to Docker's Success

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's Cloud Solution Architect, Ho Ming Li:  Two Factors to Docker's Success I recently attended DockerCon 2014, the first Docker conference hosted by Docker Inc. The atmosphere was vibrant with lots of contributors and partners in the community actively participating. This conference had it all -- filled with exciting demonstrations, significant announcements, educational sessions, and lots of meaningful discussions around containerization technologies. Thanks for having us. It was my pleasure to be a part of the first Docker conference and I look forward to the next DockerCon. With that quick impression of the conference, let's turn our attention to what I learned from this inspiring conference, and ultimately, my thoughts on Docker.  Read More Ho Ming Li is a Cloud Solution Architect at ActiveState. He has diverse experience in the software industry with past roles in development, quality assurance, release management, and professional services. With education in both technology and businesses, he aspires to be a tech guy with business sense, aiming to deliver business solutions through awesome tech products. When he is not in front of a computer, he plays a variety of sports and enjoys the outdoors.   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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Stackato and Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's CTO, Jeff Hobbs: Stackato and Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry Here are the slides from my Cloud Foundry Summit 2014 presentation: Stackato and the Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry. Below are some of the topics I discussed: What is Stackato? The Path to Stackato "Forking" with Cloud Foundry The Stackato 3 Architecture Merging Changes How Stackato Adds Value for Managers, Admins and Developers A Preview into What's Next Open Source Contributions Dogfooding Customer Happiness And due to Stackato's success in the market...yes, we are hiring! View Slides Jeff Hobbs is our CTO & VP, Engineering and oversees all ActiveState product development including our cloud solutions. Though he's responsible for leading and fostering our talented development team, Jeff is a coder at heart! He is passionate about technologies that just work, making the lives of developers easier. His current obsession is making Stackato the best private PaaS platform for developers: using any language, any infrastructure, and leveraging open source - so that applications just deploy and scale in any cloud.   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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libswarm: Docker Orchestration Announced

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's Technology Evangelist, Phil Whelan: libswarm: Docker Orchestration Announced A year ago Docker was announced. Thanks to our 3 plus years experience working with Linux containers, ActiveState could clearly see its potential and understand Solomon Hykes' vision for the future of containerization. We wasted no time making Docker part of Stackato. Back in May 2013 I had interviewed Solomon Hykes to get the low-down on what Docker was. Now, exactly one year later, Solomon agreed to sit down with me to explain what he describes as “the second lego brick” - libswarm... Read More Phil Whelan is a Technology Evangelist at ActiveState and has worked for many years building cloud solutions. You can find Phil on Twitter at @philwhln, where you can ask him any questions about Stackato. Alternatively, email philw@activestate.com   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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