Another cloud computing myth busted: PaaS isn’t just for the little guy
Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Sacha Labourey.
There’s no doubt that individuals, startups, and smaller businesses have been the first movers in Platform as a Service (PaaS), and that’s natural. It’s natural because PaaS, particularly fully managed services offerings, gives organizations a chance to focus on creating and delivering applications while leaving behind the burden associated with infrastructure and operations. Mixed in with these early adopters have been some larger companies executing on a top-down directive to ‘take advantage of the cloud.’
Lately though, the industry has seen a major shift toward more enterprise-level adoption as an overall trend. Why? One of the biggest reasons for strong growth on the enterprise side is that traditionally late adopter enterprises are being disrupted by the smaller early adopters. In some ways, this is the wave of Software as a Service (SaaS) and mobile offerings coming to market and impacting traditional players in many spaces. In other ways, it’s the IT department finally responding to the developers standing outside of their offices carrying pitchforks and torches. Overall, two quite different use cases are leading this move towards PaaS.…
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