With Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) firmly built into how enterprise IT operates, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) seems a distant third for how big businesses are accessing cloud.
But should that be the case?
When we think of PaaS, you typically think of smaller companies starting up applications in the cloud. However, PaaS has a role to play in companies at scale.
According to Joe McKendrick:
“In a recent survey of 262 enterprises I helped conduct as part of my work with Unisphere Research (and sponsored by Oracle), we found that PaaS is now prevalent among one-fifth of public cloud adopters and half of private cloud sites. Among oublic cloud adopters, PaaS adoption has jumped from 18% to 20% since 2010. This is much higher for larger organizations in the survey — those with 5,000 or more employees — with 31% report adopting PaaS.”
The negative press surrounding the cloud computing industry following the NSA PRISM leaks in June wasn’t a huge surprise.
But there are usually winners and losers in every situation – and Swiss cloud service providers stand to gain the most from the scandal.
Due to the country’s more stringent data privacy laws – a formal request from a prosecutor would have to be sent off before a CSP allows access to data in Switzerland – those at the eye of the storm are experiencing greater uptake.
Artmotion, based in Zurich, is one of these companies: in the month following the scandal, revenue went up 45%.
But as CEO Mateo Meier (left) points out, the advantages of storing data in Switzerland have been there from day one.
«Most companies ask themselves about the level of risk when it comes to the discussion where to store their data,” Meier tells CloudTech in an …
Now, it’s easier than ever to migrate existing Linux (and Windows) servers to any AWS region using Racemi’s new dedicated, self-service website. It’s a SaaS offering which anyone can use to point-and-click their way to onboard workload to AWS.
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has announced Cloud Path for AWS, a dedicated Amazon Web Services migration portal with support across the AWS international regions – Australia (Sydney), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Ireland, Japan (Tokyo) and Singapore. These are additions to existing support for AWS in the U.S. east and west regions.
Now, it’s easier than ever to migrate existing Linux (and Windows) servers to any AWS region using Racemi’s new dedicated, self-service website. It’s a SaaS offering which anyone can use to point-and-click their way to onboard workload to AWS.
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has announced Cloud Path for AWS, a dedicated Amazon Web Services migration portal with support across the AWS international regions – Australia (Sydney), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Ireland, Japan (Tokyo) and Singapore. These are additions to existing support for AWS in the U.S. east and west regions.
Public-private partnership MeriTalk has released findings of a new study showing that platform-as-a-service models could help federal agencies reduce information technology costs by $20.5 billion.
The “PaaS or Play? Cloud’s Next Move” study was underwritten by Red Hat and found that PaaS services could help shorten the time it takes to develop applications by 31 percent, MeriTalk said Wednesday.
The potential cost savings represent 25 percent of the federal IT spending.
Ninety-five percent of feds say their agencies could reduce costs and bolster security infrastructures through PaaS migration and 71 percent are either mulling transitioning to that platform or are already leading towards that direction
Public-private partnership MeriTalk has released findings of a new study showing that platform-as-a-service models could help federal agencies reduce information technology costs by $20.5 billion.
The “PaaS or Play? Cloud’s Next Move” study was underwritten by Red Hat and found that PaaS services could help shorten the time it takes to develop applications by 31 percent, MeriTalk said Wednesday.
The potential cost savings represent 25 percent of the federal IT spending.
Ninety-five percent of feds say their agencies could reduce costs and bolster security infrastructures through PaaS migration and 71 percent are either mulling transitioning to that platform or are already leading towards that direction
The adoption of cloud storage technology for a broad range of consumer and business applications is transforming the storage landscape by transitioning away from traditional disk arrays to object-based storage systems that have the scalability, availability, resiliency and accessibility to enable cloud-scale storage and instant access.
A recent IDC report predicts that the market for File- and Object-Based Storage (FOBS) will experience an annual growth rate of 24.5% through 2017, reaching $38 billion. “Increased versatility will result in more diverse use cases for FOBS,” said IDC.
The adoption of cloud storage technology for a broad range of consumer and business applications is transforming the storage landscape by transitioning away from traditional disk arrays to object-based storage systems that have the scalability, availability, resiliency and accessibility to enable cloud-scale storage and instant access.
A recent IDC report predicts that the market for File- and Object-Based Storage (FOBS) will experience an annual growth rate of 24.5% through 2017, reaching $38 billion. “Increased versatility will result in more diverse use cases for FOBS,” said IDC.
These days, users are growing more and more accustomed to expecting that they can accomplish productive work from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. As a result, IT professionals are increasingly faced with the challenge of balancing convenience with security, in an effort to provide users with the necessary remote access to corporate applications and data being demanded. In the «old days», organizations could easily restrict access to internal business data to only corporate-managed Active Directory Domain-Joined PCs, but this is fast becoming an outdated mode of operation.
It’s not today, or tomorrow, but sometime in the not too distant future the bulk of the on-premise private cloud market is going to shrivel into a little raisin and die. A very small number of very large companies will operate private clouds that will be, by an large, poor substitutes for the services available in public clouds. However, they will be good enough for these companies for some percentage of their workloads.
I have seen dozens of private cloud efforts by many large customers. Most are pretty weak shells of a cloud, not coming close to the economics or capabilities of even 2nd or 3rd tier public clouds. Comparing them to AWS, Azure or Google is like comparing my art work to a Picasso or Rembrandt. The only similarity is that I can still call mine art even if it’s atrocious. I can still call your cloud a cloud too – even if it’s expensive, inelastic, and lacking anything but the most basic of features. Some will be reasonable, but in the long run it’s a game you cannot win.