Monthly Archives: August 2012

AppFog Acquires Nodester As Node.js’s Star Continues To Rise

AppFog announced the acquisition of Nodester, the PaaS for Node.js, on Wednesday. Even though AppFog already supports Node.js on its PaaS platform, the acquisition brings Nodester developers into AppFog’s ecosystem and thereby gives them the ability to additionally code in … Continue reading

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Node.js Available On Engine Yard PaaS

Engine Yard announced the availability of the Node.js programming language within its Platform as a Service environment this week. The announcement means that Engine Yard’s PaaS now supports Ruby, PHP and Node.js. Node.js is an open source programming framework that … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Renders Python Available On Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services recently announced the availability of Python on Elastic Beanstalk, its Platform as a Service (PaaS) product. Elastic Beanstalk will now support Python applications that operate on the Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface. Developers can now … Continue reading

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Piston Cloud Announces Airframe, Free OpenStack Download With Streamlined Upgrade To Production

Today, Piston Cloud Computing announced the release of Airframe, a free OpenStack-based cloud management platform that allows users to examine a scaled down version of Piston’s Enterprise OpenStack product. Piston’s announcement represents the latest in a series of OpenStack-related announcements … Continue reading

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Rackspace’s Alamo Targets Private Cloud Enterprise OpenStack Space

Hot on the heels of Red Hat’s announcement of the preview release of its OpenStack distribution, Rackspace revealed the availability of its Private Cloud Software branded Alamo. Available as a free download on its website, Alamo intends to accelerate the … Continue reading

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Etsy, Airbnb And The Climate Corporation Use Concurrent’s Cascading Big Data Application For Hadoop Programming

Concurrent Inc. has recently announced that enterprise customers such as Airbnb, Etsy and The Climate Corporation are using Concurrent’s Big Data management application Cascading in combination with Amazon Elastic MapReduce to manage Big Data processing in Hadoop. Cascading is a … Continue reading

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