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"This is a great day for developers and enterprises looking to the cloud," said ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland (pictured) as he announced the general availability of Stackato 1.0.  "Stackato delivers on the promise of the cloud -- convenience, cost-efficiency -- with the security, control, and compliance the real-world enterprise demands," Copeland added. Bart Copeland, ActiveState CEO, talks to Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan "Stackato is about freedom, control, and ROI," continued Copeland. "Developers have the freedom to work with multiple stacks; use the best-suited tools; configure, test, and deploy faster; and ultimately build more apps. IT managers get control: They can create new apps and migrate existing ones; eliminate the risks of data silos or rogue clouds; ensure tighter security and compliance; and deploy to the cloud model that's right for th... (more)

ACTIVESTATE is named a Silver Partner at Cloudcor’s 4th Annual Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo

Cloudcor® today announced that ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, is a Silver Partner at Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference taking place May 30 – June 1, 2012 in San Francisco and online. ActiveState will showcase its innovative secure middleware technology Stackato - the application platform for creating a private PaaS using any language on any stack on any cloud. From the desktop to the datacenter, Stackato makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage, and monitor applications on any cloud. "We are ... (more)

ActiveState to Deliver Stackato 1.2 Support for HP Cloud Services

VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today announced an alliance with HP that provides Stackato 1.2 support for HP Cloud Services. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and its industry-leading cloud application security, data privacy and control are now available on HP Cloud Services. HP Cloud Services is based on HP's world-class hardware and software, with key elements of HP Converged Infrastructure combined with a develope... (more)

Enterprise Cloud Curves Ahead: PaaS Carefully

We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud). Harris claims customers have a preference for on premise (private cloud) solutions, though a McKinsey survey mentioned in the article indicates CIOs will take a “balanced” approach (read: Hybrid Cloud). Besides, acquiring on-premise IT business won’t get easier in the Federal government space with its shift to a... (more)

Cloud Connect Webcast

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) promises to trim development and deployment time from months and years to days and weeks, which has given rise to several hosted PaaS offerings. But while the promise of PaaS is intriguing, many enterprises are demanding PaaS capabilities on their own terms. They want a PaaS behind their own firewall to enable a secure cloud—a private PaaS. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120227/CG60756) Can implementing a private PaaS solve concerns over security and privacy of data? Does private P... (more)