{"id":133,"date":"2014-11-25T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=133"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:40:12","slug":"platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform-as-Service (PaaS) &#8211; A Growing Cloud Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2014\/11\/Platform-as-Service-PaaS-A-Growing-Cloud-Solution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2014\/11\/Platform-as-Service-PaaS-A-Growing-Cloud-Solution-175x150.jpg\" alt=\"Platform-as-Service (PaaS) - A Growing Cloud Solution\" width=\"175\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A recent article in SD Times highlights insights from Ben Grubin of Boston-based Cloud Technology Partners who talks about Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), their link to the cloud, enterprise adoption and concerns IT professionals may have with this developing technology. The article is quick to point out that PaaS is still \u201cin its infancy\u201d with an explosion in adoption a few years out still, but as it has been linked to the cloud so much it has a sense of maturity. So where does PaaS truly stand and what are some concerns Grubin says that the enterprise faces? Here is a quick rundown on the article.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that there is currently a sense of confusion when it comes to PaaS. There are also fears of security and vendor lock in that arise with PaaS and the limited options in services that we have seen until recently. \u201cPaaS confuses people and fills them with fear of vendor lock-in because the early platforms are tied to specific infrastructures. The overwhelming majority of people using the Force.com platform, for instance, are those working with Salesforce\u2019s CRM system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a PaaS to become truly successful and help ease some of these initial concerns Grubin points to the example of what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/net\" target=\"_blank\">.NET Framework<\/a> is to C#. \u201cYou can write the code yourself in C#, or you can take advantage of the broader framework, with the ability to reuse software components between apps and to integrate with outside resources and services. \u2018It becomes a migration target more than what Force.com was,\u2019 he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018Write your app for MY platform.\u2019 \u201d This idea utilizing components across different platform\/framework\/application and the standardization of platforms is what will really drive adoption and the explosion of PaaS. He points to <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> as an example of a provider executing this strategy \u201cperfectly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This standardization in platforms would ultimately allow users to move applications from one PaaS to another without major overhaul on the application helping to quell some of the vendor lock in worry. Of which, until recently, the only cure to such fear has been the private cloud, but that does not scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdtimes.com\/content\/article.aspx?ArticleID=70085&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full piece and for further insight into the state of PaaS included, what Grubin says, is a focus on data center consolidation rather than cloud adoption at the moment.<\/p>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in SD Times highlights insights from Ben Grubin of Boston-based Cloud Technology Partners who talks about Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), their link to the cloud, enterprise adoption and concerns IT professionals may have with this developing technology. The article is quick to point out that PaaS is still \u201cin its infancy\u201d with an explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Platform-as-Service (PaaS) - A Growing Cloud Solution - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/\",\"name\":\"Platform-as-Service (PaaS) - A Growing Cloud Solution - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2014\/11\/Platform-as-Service-PaaS-A-Growing-Cloud-Solution.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-25T20:35:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-18T15:40:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2014\/11\/Platform-as-Service-PaaS-A-Growing-Cloud-Solution.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2014\/11\/Platform-as-Service-PaaS-A-Growing-Cloud-Solution.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":270,\"caption\":\"Platform-as-Service (PaaS) - A Growing Cloud Solution\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/platform-as-service-paas-a-growing-cloud-solution\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Platform-as-Service (PaaS) &#8211; 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