Safeguard Scientifics : CLOUD COMPUTING TODAY: Apprenda and Piston Cloud Partner To Create Turnkey IaaS and PaaS Platform
January 09, 2015 at 04:04 am IST
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Apprenda and Piston Cloud Computing have partnered to deliver a turnkey IaaS and PaaS that enables developers to create Java and .NET cloud-based applications. The integrated platform delivers "policy based access to OpenStack™ APIs" to enable Apprenda customers to expeditiously leverage OpenStack technologies. The partnership empowers Apprenda customers to take advantage of the simplicity of Piston's platform for creating IaaS environments as the underlying infrastructure for their PaaS deployments. Conversely, Piston Customers can use Apprenda's PaaS to create Java and .NET applications that reap the benefits of Apprenda's enterprise-grade security and advanced functionality for the implementation of policies and procedures. Apprenda's partnership with Piston builds upon a recent collaboration with Microsoft Azure that illustrates Apprenda's strategy of teaming up with well known IaaS vendors as a means of gaining more market traction for its PaaS platform. Meanwhile, Piston customers may be surprised by its choice to partner with Apprenda given its close relationship with Cloud Foundry, but the collaboration clearly focuses on rendering Piston more available to Apprenda customers in contrast to prioritizing one PaaS platform over another. The partnership between Apprenda and Piston underscores the increasing co-implication of PaaS and IaaS within the cloud computing industry as PaaS players, in particular, attempt to seed their products on the infrastructures of IaaS vendors to enhance their market visibility and overall positioning.
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. is a provider of capital and relevant expertise to technology-driven businesses. The Company offers strategic, operational and management support to certain of its ownership interests, which include defining short and long-term strategic goals; identifying and planning for the critical success factors to reach these goals; identifying and addressing the challenges and operational improvements required to achieve the critical success factors and, ultimately, the strategic goals; identifying and implementing the business measurements that the Company and others are apply to measure a companyâs success; and identifying sources of and providing capital to drive growth. It also continues to hold relatively small equity interests in other enterprises where it does not exert significant influence and do not participate in management activities. The Company's subsidiaries include Bonfield VII, Ltd., Safeguard Delaware, Inc., SFE Properties, Inc., and others.
SAFEGUARD SCIENTIFICS, INC. 
