Pivotal unveils plans for next-generation PaaS

Pivotal One will be the first platform to integrate new data fabrics, modern programming frameworks, cloud portability and support for legacy systems, the company announced on Friday.
Changing market forces of cloud, big data, mobile, and social have driven a need in the enterprise to create a new class of applications that deliver better user experiences. Pivotal will provide the platform to address this need and is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the estimated US$8 billion addressable market that is expected to grow to US$20 billion in five years.
Pivotal One will maximise developer productivity, speed time-to-insight and action through data services, enable true cloud independence and allow enterprises to tap legacy systems to create new business models that ultimately drive greater business value.
Pivotal said omponents of the Pivotal One Platform will include:
- Pivotal Data Fabric
Pivotal HD provides deeply integrated, advanced data services with enterprise-hardened Apache Hadoop, the most cost-effective and flexible open source data platform. With enterprise data services like HAWQ and Pivotal in-memory data grid technology, Pivotal HD provides proven technologies for analytical queries and transactional environments.
- Pivotal Cloud and Application Platform
Based on Cloud Foundry, the open source PaaS, and Spring, the most popular application development framework for enterprise Java. Pivotal offers portability, scaling, automation and resiliency. Pivotal Application Fabric provides a rich developer ecosystem that enables rapid application development and support for messaging, database services and robust analytic and visualization instrumentation.
- Pivotal Expert Services
Pivotal Expert Services delivers the business value of agile development and sophisticated data analytics to enterprise companies on a project-by-project basis.
- Open Source Support
- Collaborative and customer-driven open source support and co-development
- Pivotal Open Source Software: Pivotal supports some of the most vibrant open source software communities in the world, including Spring, Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ, Redis, OpenChorus and more.
 “It is clear that there is a widespread need emerging for new solutions that allow customers to drive new business value by cost-effectively reasoning over large datasets, ingesting information that is rapidly arriving from multiple sources, writing applications that allow real-time reactions, and doing all of this in a cloud-independent or portable manner,” Paul Maritz, CEO, Pivotal said.
“The need for these solutions can be found across a wide range of industries and it is our belief that these solutions will drive the need for new platforms. Pivotal aims to be a leading provider of such a platform. We are honored to work with GE, as they seek to drive new business value in the age of the Industrial Internet.”