Platform-as-a-service CEOs bet their futures on mainstream PaaS adoption

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is by far the smallest sector of cloud, but four PaaS CEOs think it's about to hit the big time.

Node.js comes to the enterprise via Engine Yard Cloud

Node has for some time been web startups' favorite flavor of the month, and now it's becoming more accessible to enterprise-level applications, as well, thanks to the fine folks at Engine Yard.

SendGrid partners with Heroku, Engine Yard, & others on email management

Email-management startup SendGrid has partnered with leading Platform-as-a-Service providers including Heroku, Engine Yard, and CloudBees, the company announced today.

SendGrid helps more than 60,000 web application companies and developers send all kinds of emails to their customers, including shipping notifications, …

Engine Yard explains how the PaaS market is evolving (infographic)

The market for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will grow steadily in the next several years because of the potential for operational improvement and cost reduction, according to a just-released survey by Engine Yard.

Engine Yard competes heavily with Salesforce’s Force.com and …

Cloud 101: What the heck do IaaS, PaaS and SaaS companies do?

Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t …

Startups battle it out for charity in Dodgeball Invitational (photo gallery)

Code-slinging warriors from 17 Silicon Valley startups met for a gridiron foam-dodgeball clash on Sunday. The games, which raised money for charity, were part of the Octocat Dodgeball Invitational and were hosted by code repository company Github.

The event was …

Engine Yard acquires Orchestra for added PHP power

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Engine Yard has just inked a deal to buy Orchestra, a platform for deploying, scaling and managing applications in the PHP programming language.

Engine Yard is a leading PaaS for Ruby on Rails applications. The company supports thousands …