{"id":871,"date":"2016-03-10T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=871"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:06:11","slug":"compare-the-cloud-2016-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/compare-the-cloud-2016-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare the Cloud: Putting the Top 12 PaaS Vendors Head-to-Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/buyers-matrix-report-cloud-platform-paas-solutions\/#sf_form_salesforce_w2l_lead_3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/09\/Comparethecloud-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Comparethecloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/09\/Comparethecloud-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/09\/Comparethecloud.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Over the past decade, enterprise\u00a0IT has experienced an unprecedented growth in data and mobility that has left legacy <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/comparing-the-cloud-put-the-top-10-paas-vendors-head-to-head-for-a-full-stack-comparison\/solutionsreview.com\/glossary\/#onpremise\" target=\"_blank\">on-premise<\/a> solutions struggling to keep up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Many have turned to cloud computing as the solution to the modern enterprises\u2019 need for a flexible and scalable IT environment, and now, for the first time ever, cloud solutions are set to <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/cloud-computing-to-pass-500b-market-cap-by-2020-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\">surpass on-premise solutions<\/a> in overall enterprise IT spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As cloud usage\u00a0grows and enterprises move beyond typical <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/glossary\/#iaas\" target=\"_blank\">infrastructure<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/glossary\/#saas\" target=\"_blank\">software as a service<\/a> use cases, the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/explaining-the-cloud-what-the-heck-is-paas-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">platform as a service (PaaS)<\/a> model of cloud computing has emerged as a major component of the modern hybrid IT environment. PaaS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the PaaS landscape is evolving in real time\u2014finding and deploying the right solutions can be a daunting challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Choosing a PaaS Solutions Starts With Your Developers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At Solutions Review, we believe that the best approach to choosing a PaaS solution is to start with the people who will be using it: developers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But not all developers are the same,\u00a0Some developers prefer graphical tools; others prefer to perfect their application with coding. Some Developers want fast delivery capabilities; others want deep configuration and fine-tuning possibilities. Most importantly, developers want to know that a given solutions will support the software stack of their choice, and that criteria should be front-of-mind in any PaaS evaluation process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With that in mind, we\u2019ve created the PaaS Buyer\u2019s Matrix Report to provide potential PaaS buyers with an easy tool for comparing the top 12 best-of-breed PaaS solutions across the five criteria that matter most to developers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/buyers-matrix-report-cloud-platform-paas-solutions\/#sf_form_salesforce_w2l_lead_3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-641 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/07\/Final-Cloud-Infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Final Cloud Infographic\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/07\/Final-Cloud-Infographic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/07\/Final-Cloud-Infographic-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/07\/Final-Cloud-Infographic-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Features<\/strong>: Public or private hosting, open source, method of isolation (containers or virtual machines), number of US and international data regions, pricing options, and whether or not a free option is available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Languages<\/strong>: The runtimes than an application can be written in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Middleware<\/strong>: Any software component or library which assists with, but is not directly involved in a task. Essentially, middleware is any software that acts as a liason. For our purposes, this means web servers such as Nginx and Jboss, and load balancers such as HAproxy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Frameworks<\/strong>: Software frameworks designed to support the development of websites, web applications, web services and resources. This section includes content management PHP-based applications such as Drupal, as well as Java-based frameworks like Grails, and Python-based frameworks like Flask and Django.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Services<\/strong>: Core native services that are provided by the PaaS vendor as a part of the offering. This includes mem caching services, document-oriented database services, and big data services such as Apache Hadoop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, enterprise\u00a0IT has experienced an unprecedented growth in data and mobility that has left legacy on-premise solutions struggling to keep up. Many have turned to cloud computing as the solution to the modern enterprises\u2019 need for a flexible and scalable IT environment, and now, for the first time ever, cloud solutions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[69,53,17,267,22,10,132,266],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Compare the Cloud: Putting the Top 12 PaaS Vendors Head-to-Head - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Put the top 12 PaaS vendors head-to-head for a full-stack comparison with Solutions Review&#039;s 2016 PaaS Buyer&#039;s Matrix report.\u00a0\" \/>\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\/compare-the-cloud-2016-matrix\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Edwards\" \/>\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\/compare-the-cloud-2016-matrix\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/compare-the-cloud-2016-matrix\/\",\"name\":\"Compare the Cloud: Putting the Top 12 PaaS Vendors Head-to-Head - 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