PaaS Is the Future of IT
October 25, 2014
Grazed from CloudExpo. Author: Bernard Golden.
Cloud computing in the form of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has revolutionized the expectations of IT. Infrastructure that used to take weeks to months to provision is now available in minutes. Moreover, most of the traditional drawbacks associated with infrastructure have disappeared as IaaS has become more widely used.
The lengthy timeframes to add infrastructure resources to existing applications, which led to wildly over-provisioned environments, have disappeared. The heavy upfront capital investment that is required before using resources has also disappeared, supplanted by the pay-as-you-go model of IaaS cloud computing…
The result has been dramatic. Unshackled from long-established infrastructure constraints, developers have embraced cloud computing with alacrity. And, as Jevons Paradox predicts, the lower prices of cloud computing have not resulted in stable infrastructure consumption. In fact, there has been an explosion of use as developers find new and interesting application domains – all made possible by reduced costs…
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