IBM Voices Support for PaaS at Cloud Forum
October 23, 2012
Grazed from Application Development Trends. Author: Jeffrey Shwartz.
IBM emphasized Platform as a Service (PaaS) as the next frontier for enterprise cloud computing at its annual Cloud Innovation Forum in New York last week.
IBM spent much of the one-day event, attended by 100 customers and 200 other stakeholders including business partners, talking up PaaS. The company’s PaaS offering, called SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS), is available in pre-release form for customers of IBM’s existing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering, SmartCloud Enterprise (SCE) and it will be generally available later this quarter…
Only a small but growing percentage of enterprises have started using PaaS for production oriented applications, according to industry analysts. Moreover there are a number of companies with various PaaS offerings and shops are evenly split between the various services they envision using, according to IDC senior VP and chief analyst Frank Gens, who gave a presentation at the IBM event. Among the widely preferred PaaS services are Google App Engine, Microsoft’s Windows Azure, IBM’s SmartCloud PaaS, VMware Cloud Foundry, Salesforce.com’s Force.com, NetSuite SuiteCloud, the Intuit Partner Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, according to an IDC study…
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