Apprenda Scores C Round – Is PaaS Finally Here?
November 20, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) has long been heralded as the next big wave for cloud computing (disclosure, I’m an adviser to ActiveState, a PaaS vendor). Distinct from the more readily understood (and more broadly adopted) Infrastructure as a Service, PaaS provides higher value to organizations by abstracting more non-core technological requirements away from the business.
PaaS offerings further facilitate the deployment of applications when compared to IaaS since they not only take care of the infrastructure-level requirement but also offer further integrated services and the application development platform. It’s fair to say though that PaaS brings with it some broader concerns than the more simple IaaS – concerns have long been raised about the amount of lock-in that PaaS vendors create for their customers – one of the earlier PaaS offerings, Force.com is often complemented in one breath for the way it democratizes development, but criticized in the other breath for the lock-in that it creates…
Moving into a walled garden and relying on one particular vendor or class of vendors for your IT needs is a return to the situation of the last IT generation – something many are keen to avoid…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2013/11/20/apprenda-scores-c-round-is-paas-finally-here/