Can PaaS carve out its place in the federal cloud?
December 22, 2014
Grazed from FCW. Author: Troy K. Schneider.
Platform as a service promises significant savings of both time and money. The biggest names in cloud computing all offer PaaS solutions — as do countless providers that specialize in everything from mapping to content management to mobile app development. A few offerings already comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, and a 2013 survey of federal IT professionals found that 95 percent believed their agency would benefit from migrating to PaaS.
So why is PaaS still mysterious to so many? Partly it’s been a matter of structure and security. Many of the most popular early PaaS solutions, such as Heroku and Engine Yard, were available only in the public cloud, limiting their practical appeal for most federal agencies…
Today, however, a wide array of PaaS providers offer private enterprise versions, while Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and Red Hat’s OpenShift also come in downloadable, open-source versions that can be hosted locally or in a user’s own cloud…
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