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Heroku Named a "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst FirmSAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 05, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Heroku, the industry's leading Ruby cloud platform-as-a-service provider, today announced that leading analyst firm Gartner has named it as a "Cool Vendor" in Application Platforms as a Service (PaaS) in their newly released report on cloud computing. Heroku's disruptive and highly innovative approach has changed the economics for customers of all sizes to get their web apps deployed and scaled. Gartner's 2010 "Cool Vendors in Application Platforms as a Service, 2010," report showcases innovation in application platform for cloud computing and those vendors that "offer a bridge between the programming practices of familiar application servers (platforms) and the new realities of cloud deployment using application platforms as a service (APaaS)." (1) Heroku's cloud application platform operates automatically, scales seamlessly and provides for simple, painless access to enterprise-grade application platform services such as databases, message queuing, caching and performance management. Over 55,000+ web applications have been deployed on Heroku by tens of thousands of developers. "We appreciate Gartner's recognition as a Cool Vendor and view it as an important validation of Heroku's position as a leading application platform for businesses large and small," said Byron Sebastian, CEO of Heroku. "Our constantly accelerating adoption rate, the size of our customers, and complexity of the applications they are running demonstrates that cloud platforms-as-a-service are truly powering the next generation of web application development." Heroku invented a new, dynamic architecture for running web applications. Since 2007, the company has set the standard for web app platforms with a reliable, trusted platform for rapid and agile deployment, management, and operation of web apps. Heroku's Ruby cloud application platform provides provisionless, automated access to and management of key application platform components such as the Ruby runtime, Rack middleware, SQL databases, background processing, message queuing, in-memory caching, HTTP caching, and many other key architectural app components. For more information about Heroku, please visit http://heroku.com. About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. (1) Gartner "Cool Vendors in Application Platforms as a Service, 2010," by Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Massimo Pezzini, Ray Valdes, April 1, 2010 About Heroku Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform as a service focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. The San Francisco, CA-based company is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers worldwide have deployed over 55,000+ applications to Heroku. For more information, please visit http://heroku.com and http://blog.heroku.com or follow Heroku on Twitter at http://twitter.com/heroku. Heroku disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. Media Contact J. Ratkevic Black Swans Media +1 408 209 5181 Email Contact SOURCE: Heroku http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=6AF304F4FFB1FD2A |