Skytap Points Way to Seamless PaaS Cloud Future
September 6, 2013
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
When it comes to cloud computing, the ultimate goal is to essentially erase the barriers between data centers in a way that allows workloads to dynamically run wherever they are best suited. We’re a long way from making that happen across heterogeneous environments. But Skytap is showing how cloud computing will evolve in a world where platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings provide a layer of abstraction that helps mask the underlying complexity of cloud computing.
At the recent VMworld 2013 conference, Skytap showed an instance of version 2 of the Cloud Foundry PaaS environment that provided a template that IT organizations could use to deploy an instance of Cloud Foundry in less than 30 seconds…
According to Brian White, vice president of products at Skytap, the templates take advantage of the IPsec tunnels that Skytap sets up with customers to allow the Skytap cloud to become an extension of the customer’s on-premise data center. The Cloud Foundry environments provided by Skytap can be scaled up and down on-demand via the Skytap web interface or REST-based API, and IT organizations can also export the entire Cloud Foundry environment to run in their own on-premise enterprise data center at any time of their choosing…
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