I started out 2013 working as an analyst focussed on cloud services, in general, and Platform as a Service, in particular. By the end of 2013, I am now the Strategy guy for OpenShift @ Red Hat focussing more on OpenShift platform. As I plot my way to keep the research community around Rishidot Research […]
Significance of OpenShift Price Reduction
Today Red Hat (disclosure: Red Hat is my employer and I am working as Director, OpenShift strategy but this blog post is not representative of their views and this is my personal take) announced significant price cuts to their OpenShift Online service. They slashed down the price of gears by 50% in their silver plan […]
Quick Note: Subset Compatibility != No Vendor Lock-in != Standards
Recently I had a discussion on Twitter where some Pivotal employees claimed that Buildpacks removes vendor lock-in because it is used by both Heroku and CloudFoundry. As I argued in my post that standardization in PaaS only makes sense when it reduces or eliminates vendor lock-in, I beg to differ from their push that Buildpacks […]
PaaS Standards: Standardize on what?
Introduction Standardization is a natural process in any technological evolution and it helps enterprises in terms of quality control, repeatability, interoperability, etc.. As we move into the cloud based world, with large scale automation, standardization becomes even more important. Typically, open source makes standardization much easier. However, there is a strong belief in the industry […]