CloudBeat 2013: Engine Yard CEO to speak about the “PaaS” revolution
August 8, 2013
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Editorial Staff.
Increasingly, developers are looking for ways to build applications easily. They want to focus on the product, and don’t want to worry about the underlying infrastructure — the tedious junk like deploying servers, databases, and operating systems.
Engine Yard is one of the leading companies offering a so-called Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables this to happen. And we’re delighted to announce that Engine Yard CEO John Dillon will speak at CloudBeat 2013 in S.F. on Sept. 9-Sept. 10. You can buy your tickets here. Engine Yard showed momentum very early, announcing it hit $28 million in revenue shortly after launching its platform two years ago, although it has since been secretive about its revenue…
The firm says it has customers running thousands of applications, with 12,000 to 20,000 apps running at any given time. It’s now racing to hold its lead as other competing companies come on strong. Many of these other players offer their own cloud infrastructure and are now moving to offer a PaaS on top of it. These include Google’s App Engine, Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. Others, like Salesforce’s Heroku, and RedHat’s OpenShift, are also head-on competitors…
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