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Scaling Infrastructure Alone Doesn’t Maketh Platform

January 10, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Yesterday, on the Digital Nibbles Podcast, host and fellow Cloud pundit Reuven Cohen asked me why do we need PaaS when one can achieve automated scaling on IaaS services like Amazon Web Services. I thought I will do a short post answering this question as it seems to be a common question in the industry. […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: abstraction, aws, iaas, paas, platform as a service, Platform Services

Significance of OpenShift Price Reduction

November 11, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: aws, heroku, openshift, paas, platform as a service, Platform Services, price, price reduction, red hat, redhat

PaaS and DevOps: A Marriage of Seamless Collaboration

October 30, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

PaaS and DevOps are much discussed topics these days in meetups and conferences around the world. The ambiguity around the very definition of DevOps is pushing people to wonder if there is any connection between DevOps and PaaS. I want to briefly touch on this topic in the hopes of generating a conversation on the […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: devops, enterprise, paas, platform as a service, Platform Services, platform standards

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 […]

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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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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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