PaaS promises devops in the cloud

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Platform as a service is the fastest-growing area of cloud computing: Gartner forecasts the worldwide enterprise market for PaaS platforms will grow from $900 million in 2011 to $2.9 billion in 2016, representing a 26.6 percent rise each year.

The problem is that no two PaaS offerings are alike. Plus, as the market expands, anything and everything that looks like development is adopting the PaaS label, further confusing the field. As a result, I see weak excuses for PaaS clouds these days as wannabes toss their hats into the arena and chase the gold in them thar clouds. But ignore them. The truth is that a small set of established providers rule — and will continue to rule — PaaS…

The core PaaS providers are Amazon.com, Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, Heroku (now part of Salesforce.com), and Engine Yard. Dozens of others may wave their tiny little arms, but the game is shifting toward big infrastructure and devops, both of which these core companies are already covering. The reality is that the smaller providers don’t have the money to make the investments, so the larger providers have little to worry about. Thus, the smaller providers will become niche players quickly…

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