How does PaaS differ from IaaS? Putting the “Enterprise” in Enterprise PaaS Registration. How does PaaS differ from IaaS? Putting the PaaS in OpenStack with Heat. Aslaen : #PaaS definition @krishnan... Putting the S(ervice) in PaaS. At the recent JavaOne conference panel one of the panelists from a hosted PaaS vendor positioned their offering as the "S" in PaaS to distinguish themselves with other platforms represented in the panel (OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc.). I think it is an argument that has gone stale long back. If I had the twitter snark hat on, I would say 2008 called and wants its Service in *aaS argument back #enufsaid After the initial few years of Public Vs Private cloud debates, market (and, more specifically, clouderati on Twitter) are mature enough to understand that the needs of the enterprise are very diverse and their requirements varies from traditional data centers to private clouds to hybrid clouds.
The days of enterprises will use only public cloud are either very far off or next to improbable. With PRISM, the chance of "public cloud only IT" future is fast fading in our rear view mirror. To me, the "S" in PaaS means either "Service" or "Service enabling software. " Quick Note: Subset Compatibility != No Vendor Lock-in != Standards. Image Credit: XKCD.com Recently I had a discussion on Twitter where some Pivotal employees claimed that Buildpacks removes vendor lock-in because it is used by both Heroku and CloudFoundry. As I argued in my post that standardization in PaaS only makes sense when it reduces or eliminates vendor lock-in, I beg to differ from their push that Buildpacks are the standards to avoid vendor lock-in.
Heroku did an awesome job releasing Buildpacks to extend their platform to have deeper language support adhering to the idea of Polyglot Platforms. Developers got very excited extending the platform and they have definite advantage in terms of supporting many languages on their platform. When CloudFoundry tried to reboot their platform, they embraced Buildpacks because it gives them an easy onramp to extensibility. I would say it was a smart move because it helps CloudFoundry platform gain developer credibility based on the popularity of Buildpacks.
Like this: Like Loading... PaaS Standards: Standardize On What? Introduction Standardization is a natural process in any technological evolution and it helps enterprises in terms of quality control, repeatability, interoperability, etc.. As we move into the cloud based world, with large scale automation, standardization becomes even more important. Typically, open source makes standardization much easier. However, there is a strong belief in the industry that an open source PaaS offering automatically makes the platform a standard for the industry. PaaS Standards Standardization is very important in PaaS because there is a misconception in the industry that PaaS is a way to ensure vendor lock-in. Misconceptions about PaaS Standards As I said in the previous paragraph, the main goal of PaaS standardization should be to alleviate any concerns about vendor lock-in. Let me make it clear that I am not arguing for focus on application portability over open source.
How can we achieve this? Application Dependency Portability Application Portability Conclusion. OpenShift Origin Community Day (Mountain View, CA) - Eventbrite. Platform API, Now Available in Public Beta. Today, we are excited to release our new platform API into public beta, turning Heroku into an extensible platform for building new and exciting services. Our platform API derives from the same command-and-control API we use internally, giving entrepreneurs and innovators unprecedented power to integrate and extend our platform. Some of the uses we’ve imagined include: Building mobile apps that control Heroku from smartphones and tablets; Combining Heroku with other services and integrating with developer tools; Automating custom workflows with programmatic integration to Heroku The platform API empowers developers to automate, extend and combine Heroku with other services.
You can use the platform API to programmatically create apps, provision add-ons and perform other tasks that could previously only be accomplished with Heroku toolbelt or dashboard . Getting Started The Heroku platform API uses HTTP and JSON to transfer data and is simple enough to experiment with using cURL . Cloudsoft AMP – As seen on TV | Cloudsoft. Briefing Notes: Cloudsoft AMP. This is a briefing note prepared by me on Cloudsoft AMP, a DevOps platform services player offering autonomic management of applications.
Overview: Cloudsoft AMP is an enterprise application management platform that helps automate the process based on business and performance needs. Deploying an application on any cloud or PaaS is just one part of the application lifecycle management. There are many other aspects of the lifecycle that are equally important. For example, management, monitoring, governance, portability, etc. play a critical role in enterprise IT. Read the report below Disclosure: Cloudsoft Corporation is a client and sponsor of Deploycon To download the briefing note, you need to sign up as a free subscriber. [s2If is_user_logged_in()] Download Link: Like this: Like Loading... State Of The Platform As A Service Market, A Discussion For Deploycon.
The spring tech tour continues next week in Santa Clara with Deploycon, and I will be there to discuss the spectrum of PaaS providers and how they play across this broad, malleable and often manipulated sector of the market. It has become apparent that the platform as a service (PaaS) market has reached a pivot point. I have written about two companies that have pivoted in recent weeks, and we should expect the transformation to continue as the forces build apps faster with ever more data.
It’s also evidence of a greater shift in the market to more standard ways to build apps and APIs. Developers often build out apps that require multiple APIs to connect. Data has to be accessed, signaling a greater need to develop a linking structure and visual way to see updates and interactions in the lifecycle process. For context, I thought it would make sense to look at Krishnan Subramanian’s spectrum of the PaaS market and where the market players fit.
With private PaaS, the difference is choice. Rishidot Research Announces DEPLOYCON 2013 Keynote Headliners. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) March 18, 2013 Rishidot Research today announced the 2013 keynote lineup for DEPLOYCON 2013, the industry's first conference focused on Platform Services. DEPLOYCON 2013, held this year in conjunction with Cloud Connect, will take place April 2 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. DEPLOYCON will bring together CIOs, enterprise managers, IT and developers to discuss how organizations can better leverage Platform Services to enable IT transformation to Agile IT. To attend DEPLOYCON 2013, register today via Cloud Connect’s DEPLOYCON registration page. The DEPLOYCON conference debuted in 2012 with a theme of expanding platform as a service (PaaS) uptake in enterprise. Data Gravity and Complex Systems. “As enterprises understand the value of Platform Services, there are questions about how they can be leveraged to help transform IT into an Agile IT,” commented Krishnan Subramanian, Founder and Principal Analyst, Rishidot Research.
About Rishitdot Research: Agenda | DeployCon. The agenda for Deploycon 2013 is now available. 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Welcome Note by Jocelyn DeGance Graham, Rishidot Research and James Urquhart, Enstratius, takes over as MC 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM: Keynote - Data Gravity and Complex Systems (Using this to your advantage in the Cloud and the Datacenter) by Dave McCrory, Warner Music Group Data Gravity and Complex Systems play a role in Cloud services and capabilities both inside Enterprise Datacenters and outside with Cloud providers. Data Gravity naturally draws applications and services closer to Data sources. Complex Systems create opportunities for dramatic changes and improvements in how we manage the interactions of Data, Applications, and Services.
Cloud-connect-announces-expanded-keynote-lineup-for-silicon-valley-event-198480201. The premier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latest technologies, platforms, strategies, and innovations in the cloud - takes place April 2-5, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. (PRNewsFoto/UBM Tech) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The premier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latest technologies, platforms, strategies, and innovations in the cloud - takes place April 2-5, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Connect, produced by UBM Tech, today announced the expanded lineup of keynote speakers, including Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Margaret Dawson of HP Cloud Services. (Logo: In addition to the previously announced lineup from CloudOps Research, Cisco, General Electric, PayPal, Telx and Warner Music Group, the below listed, recently confirmed keynote speakers will also take the main stage: SOURCE UBM Tech. Registration for Waza 2013 is now open. Patent US20120260228 - Composite applications using service component architecture model and open ... - Google Patents. Existing cloud computing technology vendors provide various cloud computing services, such as infrastructure services, platform services, and application services. Using these cloud computing services, a developer is able to select a specific vendor, develop an application from that vendor's cloud computing service, and deploy the application with that vendor.
While developing a solution using a cloud service provided by a specific vendor can be relatively straightforward, developing a solution using different types of cloud services, which may be provided by different vendors, can be difficult. In addition to creating such solutions that use different types of cloud services, deploying such solutions can also be difficult.
For example, a developer may have to manually specify the requirements of a virtualization platform on which the solution is to be deployed. For example, a method is provided for creating composite applications. I. II. 1. III. IV. V. VI. VII. Why CloudFoundry Core Is (Not) Important? On Tuesday, VMware’s CloudFoundry project announced the availability of CloudFoundry Core, a baseline to test if an application is compatible to CloudFoundry’s core open source release. The CloudFoundry Core is based on a set of components that forms the baseline for the definition of core. Right now, they have limited set of programming languages and data services but they have shown inclination to add more in the future. Also, VMware has clearly highlighted what is part of the CloudFoundry Core and what is extra so that developers can get better understanding while planning their app strategy. It is an interesting step by VMware’s CloudFoundry team and I thought I will do a post talking about its importance and limitations (yes, the title is misleading but I went with it because it is catchy).
Also, keep in mind that my discussion about the limitations doesn’t take away the significance of this announcement. First, why it is important? Second, why it is a smart move by VMware? So. CloudBees Jenkins for Google App Engine. Multi-tenancy in PaaS: Server PaaS vs. Resource PaaS | UP 2012 - Cloud Computing Conference 2012. Date: December 12th 2012 Time: 02:05pm PST Location: Milpitas Room Whether SaaS, IaaS or PaaS, one of the central concepts of all layers of cloud computing is multi-tenancy. In most SaaS offerings, the multi-tenancy is manifold - the servers, the application code, the database and even the individual tables or pages within the database might be shared among different customers and users of the system. In IaaS, multi-tenancy is implemented via virtualization technology: a hypervisor allocates and manages a number of complete virtual machines on a particular physical computing resource. There are two primary approaches to multi-tenancy in PaaS: Server PaaS simply relies upon the IaaS multi-tenancy.
Server PaaS is essentially an automated deployment and management system. Resource PaaS provides an abstract "container" for an application that allows it to share computing resources in a granular way with other such applications. David Jilk , CEO , Standing Cloud. How Cisco moved along to PaaS. Having on-demand virtual machines for employees is one thing, but that wasn't enough for networking giant Cisco, says Rodrigo Flores, an enterprise architect in the company's intelligent automation business unit. Last year Cisco launched what Flores calls one of the most advanced private cloud networks in the world, giving Cisco's 60,000 employees access to a shopping cart of virtual machine types.
This infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud has offerings ranging from mirco instances of anywhere from one to five VMs to jumbo instances of 250 VMs, with 500 CPUs and up to 1TB of RAM. After launching the Cisco IT elastic infrastructure services, code-named CITEIS, Flores says there was a collective thinking internally of, "What's next? " For Cisco, it was platform as a service (PaaS). DR IN THE CLOUD: Vendors jump in, enterprises wade To continue reading, register here to become an Insider It's FREE to join MORE CLOUD: OpenStack releases Folsom with heavy dose of virtual networking baked in. CAMP: Will It Be Relevant? By Krishnan Subramanian on September 4, 2012 Picture Credit: Cartoonstock.com Last week at CloudOpen 2012, a group of vendors in the platforms space announced a new set of specifications to help simplify management of applications in the public and private clouds.
Called CAMP, these specifications are submitted to OASIS to develop it as an industry standard. The initial reaction from the industry and some cloud pundits is “Meh”. Even though I wouldn’t say the reaction is wrong, I thought I will wait for the noise from VMworld and CloudOpen (LinuxCon) to go down before I write about my thoughts (yeah, I agree it is a good justification for laziness). The following are my thoughts on the announcement: I am still not convinced that there is a pain point for standardization at the infrastructure level itself and there is no way I am going to agree that it is time to standardize on the platform level. To conclude, I don’t think we have the pain point (yet) to have standardization around PaaS. High I/O on Engine Yard Cloud - Engine Yard Blog. The infrastructure options available to Engine Yard Cloud customers are constantly expanding. Not long ago Amazon Web Services released limited availability of a new High I/O instance type with staggering performance gains over the existing instance types.
Today we're happy to announce availability of the hi1.4xlarge instance type as an Early Access feature for all interested customers wanting to take one (or more) of these for a spin. What is a High I/O Instance? High I/O instances are the most performant instances in terms of CPU and Disk availability on the AWS Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Storage Differences Amazon EC2 has a number of different storage options, each with varying use cases. The hi1.4xlarge instance type is making a splash in the cloud computing community as it is the first to offer solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of the more traditional spinning disk drives for ephemeral storage.
The Bottom Line The High I/O instance type is not for everyone. Enabling The Feature. Welcome to Cloud Foundry. PaaS on Hadoop Yarn - Idea and Prototype. AppFog OpenStack Birthday Contest. 23244037. Panel: Deriving value from PaaS -- Enterprise expectations. Open 24x7x365: The IBM open PaaS and private cloud platform. Heroku Chief Opens the Door to More Processes, Bigger Ecosystem, Less Amazon. DeployCon-2012-JGM.
The rest of the #paassummit dinner crowd cc: @adron @BrianMMc. DeployCon dinner pic. Thanks to @spoljaric for the photo. #pa. Joeweinman : My panelist duties over, f... Untitled. Adron : @benkepes "delivering valu... Meet the New Windows Azure. Oracle Cloud: Big Bravado, Huge Questions - Global-cio - Executive insights/interviews. Rishidot. Deriving value from PaaS – Enterprise expectations. #DeployCon panel. Rishidot Research Announces DeployCon 2012, Industry's First Enterprise PaaS Summit. OrangeScape and Eucalyptus Deliver Enterprise Private PaaS Platform. DeployCon — Enterprise PaaS Summit 2012. Jun 13: New York NY DelpoyCon - Enterprise PaaS Summit - 2012 #deploycon #PaaS #ukoot. Krish: If you are wondering what... Krish: I have seen the PaaS and i... Agenda — DeployCon. Sociable. Tier3.com. Presentation: Big Data And Intelligent Platforms. That was small. Here is the logo again for @deploycon at #new. The logo for @deploycon #paassummit #june13 #newyork. Pitney Bowes Data Day 2012.
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