Thursday 1 October 2015

The Impact of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on Enterprises

Two years from now, the biggest driver for cloud adoption won’t be traditional applications, it’ll be mobile apps. Disparate workforces already make Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) a cost of doing business for the enterprise: More types of enterprise work will require more types of mobile applications. And that will burden IT leaders mandated with managing the cloud. To retain control, those IT leaders will embrace private PaaS technologies to provide integrated application management of mobile (and Web and cloud) applications.

Marketers spin idealized tales of cross-cloud hybrid love, with capacity-enabling bursts to the public cloud, easy multi-datacenter application administration, better security management, and redundancy/failover operational models abstracted from the developers and employees doing the actual work. It’s a great, achievable vision. But for most enterprises, that hybrid cloud vision is still a couple of years away. Which is why they’re investing in private PaaS architectures now. Today’s enterprise cloud adopters see private cloud - and in particular, private PaaS technology - as the path to tomorrow’s hybrid cloud glory.

To differentiate themselves against commoditization, IaaS service providers will continue to incorporate PaaS technology into their infrastructure service offerings. Service breadth will expand, prices will fall and small business will embrace the low-cost public cloud. But those competitive pricing scenarios will challenge small standalone public PaaS providers as VC funds dry up and competitors either partner with or get absorbed into larger Cloud Computing corporations.

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