Use of Hybrid PaaS Now and In the Future

Grazed from CloudFoundry. Author: Jonas Partner.

From its beginning, Cloud Foundry has been committed to providing developers and enterprises choice of deployment options spanning public and private clouds. In this post, Jonas Partner, CEO of CloudCredo and OpenCredo, shares how their enterprise customers are using PaaS to deploy applications that span public and private clouds to increase availability, add extra capacity and prevent lock-in.

As one of the co-founders of OpenCredo I have been actively working with Cloud Foundry since its early days. We were one of the first companies to launch a production application on Cloud Foundry with the help of our friends at Carrenza. More recently we have established CloudCredo to help both enterprise customers wishing to host Cloud Foundry on their own infrastructure and cloud service providers wishing to offer Platform as a Service. We helped Ospero to bring a Cloud Foundry-based PaaS running on vCloud Director to market to better serve their customers…

With the growing availability of public Cloud Foundry instances, we are seeing an increase in interest from enterprise customers in hybrid cloud as a way to extract maximum value from their existing infrastructure while enabling capacity on demand through expansion into public cloud. In this blog we will discuss why hybrid PaaS with Cloud Foundry is gaining interest, some of the ways people are using it today and how we hope to be using it in the future…

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