“We’re actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps,” noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A. “But,” he continued, “we see true PaaS as it’s been popularized in the market – you may think of it as “Silicon Valley PaaS” – is too constraining for the types of applications that enterprises depend upon today.”
Q: Tell me about the Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework. What inspired it?
Brett Adam: We’re seeing enterprise IT and traditional service providers under extraordinary pressure to transform to cloud-based delivery and business models, but there are few reliable resources to guide what is a fairly massive architectural transformation. Despite substantial opinions about how to adopt cloud, the issue of standardization wasn’t getting the attention it deserved. We believe standardization is absolutely crucial. Uniquely, this framework looks at the cloud transformation through the lens of standardization as the driver and enabler for achieving on-demand, elastic IT.