Why the Cloud Foundry Foundation Is a Game-Changer
December 9, 2014
Grazed from Wired. Author: Angel Luis Diaz.
The amount of change in the IT industry over the last few years has been incredible. A challenge for some, an opportunity for others, a whirlwind for many. One theme runs through all of the most impactful trends causing change: open technologies.
The evolution of open cloud computing, or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has brought forth a wide range of new options to IT infrastructure deployment. The provisioning of compute, storage and related network technologies that used to take multiple weeks or more can now be accomplished in hours or even minutes — depending upon the level of sophistication of the request. Learn more about the market-leading IaaS ecosystem here...
A game changing boost of productivity needs to be delivered to the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) level of cloud computing as well, so that organizations can rapidly reduce application development times and fundamentally change the way new applications are designed and delivered. But just as with the IaaS layer, there are multiple, emerging options for implementing PaaS technologies in the data center. How do you choose wisely, how do you choose open?…
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