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Navigating the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Market Swamp PaaS has been called both a revolutionary tool that enables developers to build true cloud applications and a leap of faith. Can PaaS really be leveraged to build new cloud applications quickly and easily, or is it just another expensive software development methodology that developers ignore? |
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Deliver Cloud Apps Better, Faster, Cheaper: PaaS of the Future Software development tools are changing to meet the new demands for automated elasticity, sophisticated rules engines, orchestration across heterogeneous clouds, and support for a different software development lifecycle model. It's the future of Platform as a Service (PaaS)—better, faster, cheaper. |
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Ninety Percent of All Cloud Predictions Are Wrong Beth Cohen compares the past predictions for cloud computing and the cloudy forecasts for 2013—covering Year of the Cloud, OpenStack, VCE Vblock, VMware Cloud, and Cloud Tools. |
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Public and Private Cloud Boundaries Are Colliding Public and private cloud boundaries are rapidly colliding. On-premise private cloud hosting within a data center is shifting to a hybrid environment, where business functions are distributed across public SaaS applications, outsourced service partners, and multiple private collocation facilities. |
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Merging IaaS and PaaS Platforms—Why We Should Care Until recently, the OpenStack community was mostly concerned with building stable infrastructure platform functionality and viability. Now that it is robust enough for production, it is time to invest effort into integration with PaaS tools. Beth Cohen examines the options for integrated solutions. |
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Geolocation and the Cloud—An Oxymoron? As cloud computing services become more widely accepted, the regulatory compliance, geolocation, and corporate governance issues have global companies expressing a need to know where their data is actually located. |
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Enhancing Cloud Application Portability across Clouds The cloud application portability promise is seductive, and open specifications position customer choice as a risk-free proposition. Seamlessly migrating applications across cloud service providers and achieving desired portability will require preventing lock-in. |
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Can Amazon Be a Viable Cloud Standard? Cloud users are asking when cloud computing standards will be mature enough so that more companies will feel comfortable implementing cloud architectures and using cloud services without feeling vendor lock-in. Beth Cohen ponders whether or not Amazon is a viable cloud standard. |
