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The Need to Focus on App Delivery Lifecycle in PaaS

An App Delivery Platform-as-a-Service is not only a development platform. It is also a social platform, a deployment platform, and a user engagement platform. An App Delivery Platform-asa-Service is all about delivering apps that perfectly fit the business, it’s about creating business value, it’s about enabling the business to be successful!

Johan Den Haan
on Mar 15, 2012
Everything Is PaaSible

In this article, William Vambenepe takes a look at PaaS as an enabler; especially in the enterprise; that will afford business advantages in terms of cost, time to market and choice of tools. He suggests that the paradigm shift from machine-centric design to PaaS is a big leap in application design, that will enable application developers to always use the right tool for the job.

William Vambenepe
on Dec 15, 2011
Virtual Panel: PaaS Present and Future

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a delivery of a computing platform over the web. PaaS enables agility, and provides a low cost alternative to buying and managing complex software and/or hardware. InfoQ had a chance to conduct a virtual panel to explore the world of PaaS, the different flavors that it comes in, its relevance in the enterprise and get a sense for the future of PaaS ecosystem.

Dilip Krishnan
on Dec 09, 2011
A Java Developer’s Guide to PaaS

This article reviews and compares 6 leading vendors of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions for Java developers, together with 3 up and coming vendors mentioned at the end of the article. After reading it, you will learn different technical and business approaches of Java PaaS, and then decide for yourself which vendor provides the best platform for your needs.

Michael Yuan
on Dec 08, 2011
Enterprise Shared Services and the Cloud

As an industry, we have converged onto a standard three-layered service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to describe cloud computing, with each layer defined in terms of the operational control capabilities it offers. This is unlike, enterprise shared services, which have unique characteristics around ownership, funding and operations, and they span SaaS and PaaS layers, as we explore the differences.

Ganesh Prasad
on Nov 16, 2011
Moving Channel9.msdn.com to Windows Azure

Imagine if architects had to be the janitor for every building they designed. With an understaffed Channel 9 development team handling production support on a web farm built from mismatched servers, something had to be done. When Windows Azure was launched in the summer of 2010 the development team saw it as a way to hand off support and return to building features.

Duncan Mackenzie
on Nov 07, 2011
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT

This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, recorded at the inaugural What's Next Conference in Paris in May. Colyer discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundary product.

Charles Humble
on Sep 06, 2011
The Problem with Cloud-Computing Standardization

In this IEEE article, author Sixto Ortiz Jr. discusses the issues and challenges we are facing in cloud computing standardization. He also compares the cloud-computing standards proposed by organizations like Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), IEEE, Open Grid Forum, OASIS, and Storage Networking Industry Association.

Sixto Ortiz Jr
on Sep 02, 2011
Interview with Rob Linton, author of “Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application”

A new "Amazon Web Services : Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application" book by Rob Linton provides a deep insight into Amazon Web Services (AWS) covering a wide spectrum of topics from describing AWS components and their role in applications architecture to step-by-step instructions on setting and configuring each AWS component . InfoQ spoke with by Rob Linton about his book.

Boris Lublinsky
on Sep 01, 2011
Understanding Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities

In this IEEE article, authors Bernd Grobauer, Tobias Walloschek and Elmar Stöcker discuss the cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities using the vulnerability definition from the Open Group's risk taxonomy.

Bernd Grobauer Tobias Walloschek Elmar Stöcker
on Aug 15, 2011
Cloud Computing Realigns Role of Service Oriented Architecture

From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a source of dissension among enterprise, solution and application architects. Now cloud computing is changing the conversation.

JP Morgenthal
on Jul 27, 2011
An Open, Interoperable Cloud

This article describes how interoperable clouds can be created, today, through the integration of open standards such as the Open Cloud Compute Interface, the Open Virtualisation Format and CDMI. They provide the means to package virtual infrastructure deployments, an API for the runtime management of storage infrastructure and an API for the runtime management of infrastructure as service.

Andy Edmonds Thijs Metsch Eugene Luster
on Jul 19, 2011