Canopy Delivers on Cloud Foundry PaaS Potential

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge.  Author: Mike Vizard.

Conceptually, the shift to platform as a service (PaaS) makes a lot of sense. Instead of managing stacks of computing, a PaaS environment makes it simpler to manage large swaths of the IT environment at a higher level of abstraction. For that reason, Cloud Foundry has received a lot of interest. It’s an open source implementation of a PaaS environment that can run on both public and private clouds.

Originally developed by the Pivotal unit of EMC, Cloud Foundry has found a fair amount of support among vendors that see it as providing a counterbalance against the growing influence of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendors such as Amazon Web Services. The theory is that if IT is managed at the PaaS layer, then the underlying infrastructure on which that PaaS environment rests becomes just another IT means to an end…


At the moment, the leading implementation of Cloud Foundry comes from Pivotal in the form of Pivotal CF, the implementation of Cloud Foundry that Pivotal sells. The challenge most IT organizations have today is that they don’t have a lot of internal expertise when it comes to deploying and managing Cloud Foundry…

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