The Platforms as Services (PaaS) are now at the heart of developer community productivity, agility and performance.
Beyond set of challenges related to vendor lock-in; lack
globally recognized standard; individual standards and parameters, creating
further complexity, it is obvious that, one of the major reasons for PaaS
adoption is to reduce the capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational
expenditure (OPEX) associated with enterprise infrastructures.
The pay-per-use model
makes the solution realistic for SMEs as they pay only for their required
usage. PaaS providers continue to beef of their platforms with awesome tools
such as business analytics and network optimization; beneficial for enterprises.
For those who are unfamiliar, when it comes to PaaS, we talk about a group of cloud computing services that provides application development platform with a development tool hosted in the cloud and accessed through a web browser.
For those who are unfamiliar, when it comes to PaaS, we talk about a group of cloud computing services that provides application development platform with a development tool hosted in the cloud and accessed through a web browser.
The
cloud resources are deployed and managed by cloud service providers while
end-users have the liberty to use the service on a pay-per-use basis. With the
PaaS solution, developers can build web applications without installing any tools;
without any specialized system administration skills.
According to Technavios and Research and Markets , the following companies as the key players in the
Global PaaS Market: Amazon Web Services, CloudBees, Google, Pivotal and
Salesforce
Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Appirio, Apprenda, Bungee Labs, CA technologies, Engine Yard, gCloud3, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Red Hat and Software AG.
Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Appirio, Apprenda, Bungee Labs, CA technologies, Engine Yard, gCloud3, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Red Hat and Software AG.