Cloud Computing: Cloudbees Puts Sting Into Battle With Google, Microsoft
October 1, 2012
Grazed from Wired. Author: Klint Finley.
Sacha Labourey wasn’t interested in cloud computing when he resigned as co-general manager of the JBoss division at open source software giant Red Hat in 2009. “I didn’t think it was anything special,” he says. “I thought cloud was just a bunch of servers running in a data center somewhere.” But within a year, he had a complete change of heart — so much so that he co-founded CloudBees, a cloud service for building Java applications.
“I wanted to help developers, and eventually, I realized the best way to do that to take the complexity out of fitting all the little pieces of the development stack together,” he says. He realized that cloud computing could be more than just a bunch of servers. It could be a way of making life easier for developers…
Like other “platform clouds,” CloudBees aims to take the labor out of standing up software development platforms by providing a pre-configured service where you can put together an application. But it’s an underdog going up against some of the biggest names in tech: Google, Microsoft, VMware, Amazon, and Red Hat. So, on Monday, CloudBees rolled out some new tools to help it take on the giants: ClickStarts and ClickStacks, which will help customers build custom development environments…
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