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Think Big: Composable Enterprise and the need for Open Architecture

October 22, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

As we move from traditional IT to a world of services, we are forced to rethink IT services in all layers of the stack, from infrastructure to higher order business functions. As enterprise IT moves to a service dominated world, open architecture becomes a critical part of IT thinking. In this post, I will briefly […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: composable enterprise, devops, extensible platforms, jonathan murray, open architecture, open source, paas, platform as a service, Platform Services, Platforms

Quick Note: Subset Compatibility != No Vendor Lock-in != Standards

October 4, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: buildpacks, cloudfoundry, heroku, paas, platform as a service, Platform Services, standards

Segmenting The PaaS Landscape: The S In PaaS

October 1, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

At the recent JavaOne conference panel, Sacha Labourey of CloudBees positioned themselves as the S in PaaS to distinguish themselves with other platforms represented in the panel (OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc.). I think it is an argument gone stale. Especially, with the twitter snark hat on, I would say 2008 called and wants its Service in […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: apprenda, cloudfoundry, openshift, paas, paaslandscape, platform as a service, Platform Services, private paas, service, wso2

PaaS Standards: Standardize on what?

October 1, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: cartridges, cloudfoundry, containers, heroku, openshift, paas, paas standards, platform as a service, Platform Services, Platforms, standards

Infrastructure Scaling Does Not Equal Application Scaling

September 25, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian 3 Comments

Yesterday, at JavaOne 2013, one of the panelist in the PaaS Faceoff panel was talking about scaling which I found troubling. It was a panel with OpenShift (Disclosure: I am a Red Hat employee), CloudBees, ActiveState and Pivotal CloudFoundry. While talking about the platform features, one of the panelists claimed application scaling as one of […]

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MBaaS and PaaS: Different Dance On The Same Data

September 17, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian 2 Comments

For a long time I have been advocating that a good Platform as a Service offering should have MBaaS component. I have got push back from folks saying that it is not the case. I never argued that MBaaS is a feature of PaaS but it complements PaaS to make a complete application platform. There […]

Filed Under: Mobile, Platforms Tagged With: gigam pro, google hangout, kinvey, mbaas, openshift, paas, partnership

When Multi Cloud Makes Sense

July 23, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Regular readers of my blog knows that I am a strong advocate of federated clouds as an antidote against monopoly in the cloud infrastructure market. As we move up the stack, it has become a norm to support multiple cloud providers on various infrastructure platforms like OpenStack (disclosure: my employer Red Hat is part of OpenStack project), CloudStack […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: cloudstack, multi cloud, openshift, openstack, paas, platform as a service, rhel

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My name is Krish Subramanian. I am the founder of Rishidot Research, an research and advisory firm focussed on Modern Enterprise. AllThingsPlatforms is a blog to talk about the platforms to build next generation services.

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