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Part 3: Cloud, PaaS and the Rise of the Visual Developers

posted 35 days ago

cloud_pass

This is part 3 of my post in the PaaS Series. My earlier posts in this series are : Part 1:  It’s all about Abstraction & Part 2: PaaS for enterprises is more than DevOps! Cloud Computing, more specifically Platform as a Service (PaaS) is changing the business app developer demographic forever. Or should I say that,… read more »

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What is PaaS all about? – Part 2: It’s not just about DevOps

posted 77 days ago

tech_conv1

This is Part 2 in my series of post on the topic of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and in this post I have covered why PaaS for enterprises is more than just DevOps and a larger “technology convergence” in the core “Software Engineering” area is leading this perfect storm called PaaS. The 1st part is: What… read more »

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What is PaaS all about? – Part 1: It’s all about Abstraction!

posted 196 days ago

Platform on the cloud

This is the 1st part of the multi-part series on ‘What is PaaS all about?’ Let’s start from seeing the “Platform” story prior to Cloud. Enterprise IT did a lot of heavy lifting. They hand crafted the platform by combining various products like App Servers, Web Servers, Databases, Middleware, Integration Servers, Portal Servers, Workflow Engines and… read more »

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Demystifying PaaS landscape – Fishing in muddied waters of Cloud Computing

posted 216 days ago

Demystifying PaaS landscape

Every other day there is a new cloud product / platform announcement. Not just startups even the mega ISVs are jumping into the cloud bandwagon. Oracle’s Larry Elision first says cloud is all crap and then announces ‘Cloud-in-a-box’ sort of an oxymoron and in this year’s OOW Oracle makes a flamboyant announcement is just one… read more »

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Why PaaS instead of IaaS or SaaS?

posted 230 days ago

Suresh Sambandam

It can be argued that Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) have been sufficiently commoditized so as to neutralize any “breakthrough” competitive advantage they might originally have presented.  In simple terms, once everybody’s doing it, you have to do it just to keep pace.  If only one bank had Automated Teller Machines, that bank would have a big… read more »

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