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Founded in 2009 in the Silicon Valley, Skydera is focused on providing best-in-class cloud command & control products and services that make the cloud enterprise a reality, while complementing both public and private cloud infrastructure services and vendors. Skydera C3 delivers true Platform-as-a-Service for cross-cloud IT and is customizable to support the demanding requirements of SaaS ISVs and IaaS/PaaS vendors.

Hosting over 400,000 sites across 112 countries, the Rackspace Cloud Sites product is the Platform-as-a-Service many advertising agencies and web design shops go to for creating sites that are stable, scalable and backed by support that is available in a moment’s notice.

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can subscribe here.

This is a guest post written and contributed by Aaron Mandelbaum, Director of Marketing at OpenLogic, Inc., a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner.  OpenLogic provides enterprise open source solutions for the cloud and data center.

This is a guest post written and contributed by Jesse Kliza, Director of Marketing at Apprenda, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner.  Apprenda provides an Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) software stack for .NET that enables any organization to deploy their own self-service PaaS on any infrastructure.

About a week ago, Rackspace Cloud founder Jonathan Bryce, along with Rourke McNamara of TIBCO Software, Mike Meehan of Current Analysis, David Kelly of Upside Research, Jim Kobielus of Forrester, and Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions, all sat down to discuss Platform as a Service and its future impact on enterprises.