Jason Hoffman, the former Joyent CTO who’s now spearheading Ericsson’s cloud computing show talks about what he and Apcera are up to. In addition, the Oracle succession saga, Talko talks, and what’s up with Watson.
Apcera attacks a huge problem — promising to give big companies a means to develop, deploy and manage workloads with compliance and policy baked in. Now it has new funding to back that play.
On this week’s Structure Show we talk about Platform as a Service which depending, on who you believe, is a dying breed or a boom town.
Derek Collison, who left VMware’s Cloud Foundry effort to start Apcera, has been mum on details on his startup. Until now. The goal is a policy-aware platform that even IT pros can love. Oh, and it will compete with Cloud Foundry.
The Go language is gaining momentum among PaaS and IaaS vendors, says Apcera founder and CEO Derek Collison. Research shows the language gaining ground, although it hasn’t cracked the top 20. JavaScript and Java remain top dogs among overall programing languages.
VMware brain drain continues as Cloud Foundry leader David McCrory takes a new gig at Warner Music. In his blog, McCrory tried to softpedal speculation as to his reasons and pledged to speak at VMworld as planned.
The number of principal engineers and other technical leaders leaving the company and trying to have big impacts elsewhere suggests VMware might achieve mafia status a la Sun Microsystems, Facebook, Google or PayPal. But is that good news for VMware?
Derek Collison, the guy who built VMware’s CloudFoundry service, left the hypervisor giant in mid-February with an idea to make platforms as a service even better. His startup, Apcera is the result. Now, with $2.2 million in funding Collison is ready to begin.
