The Linux Foundation and Altoros have announced that we’ve joined The Hyperledger Project as a General Member.

We are very happy about this announcement, and I’ll tell you why:

Development in the open. Compared to alternatives, the Hyperledger Project is being built with the DNA of Linux Foundation. The team behind the [...]

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Three steps to consider

Now, I think the team at HPE should continue the momentum by doing these three things:

Put a “Cloud Foundry First” strategy on top of it.

Then rapidly expose its existing APIs. For example, 40+ Haven APIs.

Hint, hint, plus real source code for you to play with! A [...]

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On October 23, 2014, HP launched Helion Development Platform—the company’s PaaS based on Cloud Foundry and integrated with HP Helion OpenStack. Below is a brief recap from the event dedicated to this.

Developers are at the core

6:00 Nice vibe, cool people, and good music outside at the HP Helion event.

6:10 Paul Maritz, [...]

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The momentum behind the Cloud Foundry Foundation signals the arrival of an application-defined infrastructure, where an app can define the underlying infrastructure through an industry-standard API call. As a corporate sponsor of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Altoros will continue contributing resources and code to help the foundation fulfill its mission.

Recently, [...]

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The open-source project Cloud Foundry exploded overnight. Pivotal announced that a group of major IT vendors will form the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a legal entity aimed at providing a formal governance body for the open-source software project. The group united around Cloud Foundry pulls a combined market capitalization [...]

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Great opportunity

Earlier today in a Twitter chat led by John Furrier of SiliconAngle, we discussed whether Pivotal One is vapor—or real. This post expands my opinion on the subject.

Pivotal‘s promise is that using their tool set, an IT architect can fill the entire “meat [...]

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This week, I attended Mashup Camp 4. It started with a two-day Mashup University, followed by a two-day Mashup Camp.

Monday, July 16

Several vendors who sponsored the event presented their mashup development tools. I’ve seen Zude product, announced in April with the help of ZDNet’s David Berlind. Nice UI, Dapper and [...]

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Mashup background

Where did the StrikeIron Business Mashup Contest happen?

The StrikeIron Business Mashup contest occured during MashupCamp 4, which took place at July 18-19, 2007 in Mountain View, CA. More information is available at http://www.mashupcamp.com.

 
Can I see a demo of the mashup?

A live Mashup demo is available at the official mashup [...]

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Let me focus on what prevents mashups from evolving into the enterprise space right now. According to Gartner, corporate developers spend approximately 65% of their effort building bridges between applications. Think about information that’s stored in a typical enterprise and how it interacts with information on the web. [...]

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Trend #1: Shift to Cloud Computing

In “cloud computing,” documents and business information are managed online. Google is rapidly building an amazing platform for rolling out on-demand applications on a worldwide scale. Very soon, Google Apps will be a good-enough solution for millions of small business to solve most document management [...]

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