Internet-based IT Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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A Internet-based IT Platform as a Service (PaaS) is an IT platform that is a cloud computing service.



References

2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service Retrieved:2015-2-8.
    • Platform as a service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run and manage Web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.[1] [2] [3] PaaS can be delivered in two ways: as a public cloud service from a provider, where the consumer controls software deployment and configuration settings, and the provider provides the networks, servers, storage and other services to host the consumer's application; or as software installed in private data centers or public infrastructure as a service and managed by internal IT departments.[4] The two primary programming languages for PaaS are Java and .NET, according to Gartner. [5]
  1. Brandon Butler, “PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?” Network World, February 11, 2013.
  2. “Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS,” Rackspace, October 22, 2013.
  3. William Y. Chang, Hosame Abu-Amara, Jessica Feng Sanford, Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services, London: Springer, 2010, pp. 55-56.
  4. Judith Hurwitz, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper and Dan Kirsh, “What Is Platform as a Service (PaaS) in Cloud Computing?” Hybrid Cloud For Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
  5. Mark Driver, Java and .NET: You Can’t Pick a Favorite Child, Gartner, p. 2.

2015b

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Platform_as_a_service_.28PaaS.29
    • In the PaaS models, cloud providers deliver a computing platform, typically including operating system, programming language execution environment, database, and web server. Application developers can develop and run their software solutions on a cloud platform without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers. With some PaaS offers like Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine, the underlying computer and storage resources scale automatically to match application demand so that the cloud user does not have to allocate resources manually. The latter has also been proposed by an architecture aiming to facilitate real-time in cloud environments.[1]