PaaS Enviroments Pave Path to Hybrid Cloud Computing

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.

As cloud computing continues to mature the line between private clouds running on premise or a third-party data center and public cloud computing services gets blurrier with each passing day. At the JavaOne 2013 conference today CloudBees today announced that its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for Java applications can now be deployed on a public cloud in a way that is tightly integrated with the version of it software that IT organizations currently deploy on premise.

In addition, CloudBees announced that it now also supports iOS and OS X environments in addition to Google Android for organizations looking to build and deploy mobile applications in the cloud. According Steve Harris, senior vice president for CloudBees, enterprise IT organizations want to be able to take advantage of inexpensive public cloud services to build and test applications. But when it comes time to deploy them in a production environment they still prefer to have a more secure private PaaS environment that they can more granularly control…

For many organizations the need to build and deploy mobile applications is, of course, forcing the cloud computing issue. But instead of viewing on premise clouds and public cloud services as alternatives to each other, IT organizations are starting to identify various types of cloud platforms as complementary extensions to one another. That realization may have been a long time in coming. But once IT organization begin to balance the economics of the cloud against security, compliance and performance requirements the need for a hybrid cloud computing strategy becomes self-evident…

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