WaveMaker is a rapid application development open source environment for building, maintaining and modernizing business-critical Web 2.0 applications. WaveMaker Studio generates standard Java apps – extensible by expert developers using any Java IDE. WaveMaker Server uses standard Java components to provide security, data access & scalability. With WaveMaker 6.4, you can deploy your application to Cloud Foundry in just a few clicks.

VMware announced VMware vFabric™ Suite 5.1. With new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL database, VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 will provide the core application services required to build, run and manage Java Spring applications whether on-premise or in the cloud.

MuleSoft launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, which includes a comprehensive set of new tools and services for instant Software as a Service (SaaS) integration in the cloud, lowering the barrier to SaaS adoption. The Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS) connects across cloud-based applications and also connects SaaS to on-premise applications. MuleSoft’s Anypoint™ technology for on-demand API connectivity eliminates the need for custom point-to-point code.

Xeround announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog’s PHP Fog PHP platform. Xeround’s add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platforms with a zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in just one click.

VMware announced that SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) running on VMware vSphere® has achieved high performance levels comparable to results of physical infrastructure. The data further validates the value of virtualizing business-critical applications, such as security, support for application availability and disaster recovery, and reduction in time-to-market for deploying systems and applications.

Jinesh Varia is a Technology Evangelist at Amazon. He discusses automating continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous optimization in the context of using cloud computing services.

ActiveState announced an alliance with HP that provides Stackato 1.2 support for HP Cloud Services. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and its industry-leading cloud application security, data privacy and control are now available on HP Cloud Services.

David Young, CEO and co-founder of Joyent, challenges the status quo in cloud computing today and offers Joyent’s application virtualization technology as one example of how to turn today’s broken cloud computing into Smart Computing.

Several software development tools companies including Engine Yard, CloudBees, EnterpriseDB and Xeround announced recently their support for HP Cloud Services.

Zenoss announced the enhancement of its free and open source CloudStack ZenPack. The new ZenPack will extend monitoring and correlation capabilities to VMs running on CloudStack for a more unified view of the CloudStack infrastructure. CloudStack has an underlying core of VMs that are key to the system’s operation. The new CloudStack ZenPack now monitors these VMs, including router VMs, secondary storage VMs and console proxy VMs, to ensure service performance on CloudStack.