IaaS infringes on acceptance of true PaaS cloud architecture

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Alex Barrett.

Organizations that have chosen true Platform as a Service have done so because it can deliver production applications for a small fraction of the cost and manpower of doing it themselves — on-premises or on IaaS, they say. But a PaaS cloud architecture is still encountering enterprise hesitance.

Choose Digital in Miami offers a digital marketplace platform that customers white-label as part of loyalty and affinity programs. When the company was founded three years ago, it evaluated some early PaaS options, and found that CloudBees integrated tightly with its continuous integration tools, including Jenkins test and the GitHub source repository, and enabled the firm to get its products up and running very quickly…

“PaaS gave us the flexibility to be very nimble as a team, to prototype quickly — and to throw stuff away if it didn’t work,” said Mario Cruz, Choose Digital’s CTO and cofounder. It meant the company didn’t need to hire dedicated infrastructure and operations staff, and instead could focus on hiring developers. “It’s like having a whole infrastructure team in-house, without actually having an infrastructure team,” Cruz said. Without CloudBees, he estimates that he would have had to hire eight infrastructure engineers to support the 30 applications running on the platform…

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