PaaS: cloud computing development driven choice

In any case, the situation in 2012 seems to be the best year for cloud computing. In the past year, in addition to becoming the focus of almost all the media, cloud computing has seen tremendous gains in the number and scope of its implementation.

Although the prospects for the development of cloud computing are more optimistic, cloud computing is still largely a symbolic one in terms of suppliers' financial reports. Even if optimistic estimates, its market profit is only achieved less than 1% of the total.

Cloud providers or potential providers are getting attention; then how should the service be transformed into a commodity? Fortunately, the simultaneous increase of buyers and sellers of cloud computing in 2013 will further promote the future of cloud computing.

The following are five major trends for cloud providers in 2013.

PaaS is king

One of the drivers of cloud computing is that PaaS will become the cloud of choice for cloud computing services. Although IaaS products now dominate the market, cloud computing products of this model have fallen into the quagmire of low-cost competition and profit pressure; moreover, it is even more obvious that the IaaS business proposition No longer clear. More importantly, both cloud buyers and sellers are questioning, "If cloud computing is so different from other service delivery models, why not derive its own cloud-based application flow?"

If the application is not at the top of the cloud stack and the server is not at the bottom of the stack, then IaaS is a low-threshold entry to cloud computing. As cloud computing buyers continue to increase their costs at the stack level, their potential savings follow the same trajectory. In other words, cloud computing services can only save to a certain extent the cost of maintaining resources deployed on the same scale internally, which means that IaaS only saves the cost for cloud computing buyers in terms of hardware facilities.

As a result, SaaS saves the most money, while IaaS saves the least cost. However, SaaS needs an outreach application software library, so cloud providers must turn into software developers and integrators to create those higher-level products. When they do, providers realize that by providing more virtual machine (VM) hosting, they can add more added value to these partnerships and create a more unified platform Run the framework so that vendors reduce their own cloud computing support costs.

Cloud computing is no longer the main mechanism for its cost and profit management. Recently, PaaS made cloud computing evolve into some kind of "virtual cloud computing operating system". After all, every time a cloud provider offers a new cloud-based service, it effectively creates a virtual cloud computing operating system for it. Most PaaS services today correspond to a traditional operating system (OS), but in the future PaaS environments from different vendors are different from each other, all based on current common operating systems to create cloud-based Operating system

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leader in IaaS with its superior service capabilities beyond IaaS, has recently introduced its Redshift data warehouse cloud computing service. Microsoft added Azure Application Programming Interface (API) to its Windows Server, a move that enables third parties to host Azure-compatible cloud computing. Red Hat has launched a PaaS product, OpenShift, while Amazon has introduced a Java-hosted virtual machine platform optimized for cloud computing. All of these initiatives are driving cloud computing, encouraging developers and becoming the key to enabling rich services.

In 2013, the development in this area will be more far-reaching and rapid. For example, Telefónica Digital plans to build its own popular TU Me unified communications service by providing developers with its core API, the TU Core.

CIMI estimates that the profit opportunity of a simple old application cloud migration will reach almost one-tenth of the total cloud computing market. However, by creating their own custom platform services and APIs, operators can create a PaaS cloud that targets only their current applications, and of course this PaaS cloud can also be targeted entirely at stand-alone cloud hosting. This approach will be the most transformative factor in the evolution of cloud computing.

2. Cloud computing buyers will become more intelligent

The second factor driving the growth of cloud computing in 2013 is that cloud computing buyers will reach the threshold. When less than one-third of the market buyers are able to confidently understand and communicate the value of a product or service without caring for a specific project deployment, the result is a frustratingly difficult cloud sales process, Project failure rate and slow development. In 2012, the cloud computing cloud purchase rate was below 25%, but our model shows that this figure will reach the critical third of the year by the end of 2013.

The smarter buyer community means cloud computing services will for the first time be driven by concentrated market pressures and specific market needs. All this brings double the opportunity for ambitious cloud computing operators, thereby reducing the living space of substandard products and promoting a new wave of cloud computing integration.

Can not be ignored SOA

Ranked third is the software-oriented architecture (SOA) that is increasingly recognized in local cloud computing services. An obvious omission in long-term cloud computing implementation strategies has become a model for application development to take advantage of cloud computing, not just cloud computing. Currently, more software vendors are positioning SOA, RESTful (ie, web-like) APIs and business processes as a way to create local cloud computing applications and to facilitate a mix of public cloud computing services and internal IT.

Network development

The driving factor in the fourth place is the improved integration of web services and cloud computing. Software-defined networking and network virtualization are often mixed, but in fact they are often two separate parts that support cloud computing network connectivity and performance.

OpenStack's Quantum APIs provide direct control of virtual networks, and more and more DevOps tools are helping to deliver "operational" application lifecycle management and deployment of public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud computing.

5. Do not let Amazon scare you

The last driver in 2013 was competitive and differentiated needs. No single vendor wants to enter a market that continues to face declining prices and profits, and even in 2012, even tier one carriers said cloud computing should soon become the most common service for business customers instead of virtual private networks. To create and make "new cloud computing" profitable, vendors are exploring and expanding their offerings by focusing on developers and software partners, adding new management ideas and platform services. All of this provides buyers with more options to ensure that every path to cloud computing service verification is fully explored.

AWS shunned some of its cloud computing rivals with its solid early lead, but the early cloud computing market was only a small part of the overall cloud computing landscape. However, more and more suppliers realize that the full potential of cloud computing remains to be realized.

This awareness will bring us the most profound changes in 2013. The more cloud computing platforms we see, the more new cloud-specific applications we develop and the more cloud computing we get. In the end, cloud computing will become a powerful tool in the transformation of consumer behavior and employee productivity, and the seeds of these two major changes will be broadcast in 2013, with benefits and benefits to be revealed by the end of the year.