PaaS offerings blurring lines between cloud packages
May 8, 2013
Grazed from TechCentral. Author: Editorial Staff.
Platform as a service (PaaS) is sort of the like the red-headed stepchild between the two, providing an application development and hosting platform in the cloud. PaaS in many ways combines elements of infrastructure and software as a service. But recently, Gartner researcher John Rymer, who closely tracks the PaaS market, says the lines between IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are beginning to blur.
Some of the leading IaaS companies, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are adding PaaS-like features to their offerings. AWS has made it easier to deploy and scale applications in its cloud through services like its recently released OpsWorks, as well as Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFront, for example. SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com, meanwhile, is making a big push to promote its integrated PaaS offerings, Force.com and Heroku…
IaaS and SaaS are still strong markets in their own right, but increasingly providers in these areas are migrating toward the PaaS market as well. "These models are getting a good amount of usage," Rymer says…
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