Is The Cloud Platform Battle Over?
January 15, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Reuven Cohen.
There’s been a renewed debate recently over the various layers of cloud computing stacks. At stake is a fight for cloud computing market share and mind share — and possibly, the future of cloud platforms. Beyond a small group of technologists, cloud computing remains largely a mystery for most people. Ironically, I believe that’s the point of the cloud: To act as an abstraction of the complexity found in more traditional data centers and application hosting infrastructures.
At the center of the cloud platform debate is a new reality: Cloud consumers no longer need to manage or worry about the underlying infrastructure. The question of platform occurs only when you ask who or what controls operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and networking components…
Platform as a service (PaaS) focuses not on the infrastructure pieces, but on the deployment of applications and configuration settings for the application-hosting environment. For most PaaS offerings, the preponderance of infrastructure features has been removed, and the focus is on deploying a composable set of application components rather than controlling the lower-level components…
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