The top ten trends for the next five years in the PAAs field

Frost & Sullivan, an IT research and consulting firm, recently predicted that the platform-service (PaaS) market would be the next area of intense competition for cloud-computing start-ups, as the two areas of infrastructure, service (IaaS) and software as services (SaaS), were already commercialized. As most of the software available from the cloud environment is standardized, organizations now expect to take full advantage of the PAAs solution, as this will be the only area where service providers can gain differentiated advantages.

It is worth mentioning that PAAs, a class of cloud computing services, delivers computing platforms and solution stacks as a service to the enterprise. Like SaaS and IaaS, PAAs is a rapidly evolving service model in the cloud computing world. In this mode, the PAAs customer uses the tools and libraries provided by the provider to build the software. The customer also controls software deployment and configuration settings. Providers provide networks, servers, and storage systems. The PAAs solution facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of purchasing and managing the underlying hardware and software. PAAs providers offer a wide range of solutions, including application hosting, development, testing, and deployment environments, as well as extensive integration services, including scalability, maintenance, and versioning. The PAAs expert, ActiveState's chief executive, Bart Copeland, describes the trends in the cloud computing market that he believes will emerge in the coming years. The Komodo Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed by ActiveState is dedicated to cloud computing development.

The increase in workload will facilitate the adoption of PAAs.

The job is not getting any easier, as the company's management expects. More and more work will put greater pressure on it to cut costs and increase productivity. The PAAs-style cloud planning technology provides the flexibility, control, and efficiency that developers, IT managers, and CIOs need to achieve performance metrics.

Second, the IaaS provider will move to the top of the stack, covering PAAs IT.

Market-leading IaaS technology will gradually become a popular infrastructure delivery model. The potential winners of the IaaS sector include Amazon, Rackspace, HPCS, OpenStack, Cloudstack, Dell Vcloud, IBM SmartCloud, Eucalyptus, and Azure. To be different, the IaaS leader will integrate middleware technology, otherwise the PAAs provider makes and bypasses them completely on the lower layer of the stack.

Third, the public PAAs will win the SME market.

For smaller environments, public cloud services will continue to provide cost-effective IT systems that enable SMEs to focus on strategy rather than infrastructure. Low ordering prices and standardized middleware service solutions will ultimately drive the SME market to dedicate to the public PAAs.

But public services will cede large enterprise markets to private PAAs.

Big companies are bound to move to cloud computing. But the reliability problems, security risks and limitations of the readily available public PAAs services will push the big enterprise market to private PAAs replacement services. The enterprise cloud remains within the enterprise and relies on proprietary PAAs middleware to eventually seek a hybrid solution.

Five, open source PAAs platform will flourish.

As the workload increases and the cloud architecture changes, it will require a highly customizable cloud environment. Large enterprises need to be the underlying middleware, and enterprise developers and CIOs will focus on expanding open source PAAs IT.

Vi. Open source PAAs platform will be available through popular Linux distributions.

For open source PAAs technology, Linux solutions will become a more powerful indirect distribution channel. Canonical Ubuntu has embarked on this path, adding cloud Foundry client and server components to its Linux distribution. Red Hat is investing in openshift, and will be the PAAs option for Linux customers as the Red Hat Enterprise version.

The proprietary PAAs will start as open source products.

Enterprise customers want both the use of Open-source software and the security of commercial software (and service-level agreements). Proprietary PAAs products become more scalable, evolving, and supporting more languages, frameworks, and APIs (application programming interfaces). Development and operations owners can add runtime environments, attachments, Third-party services, or database clusters--adding the variety of content needed to complete a custom stack.

Viii. PAAs compatibility? More like PAAs conflict.

The PAAs sector is becoming more and more intense. At the very least, marketing momentum will not be so polite. In a crowded middleware market, vendors strive to differentiate themselves from the more specific ("PAAs for sporting goods retailers with less than 50 virtual machines") and to convey more aggressive marketing messages (a tone that is like a national leader's campaign).

IX. Coordination and configuration management will be integrated with PAAs it.

Like IaaS, PAAs middleware providers need flexibility to survive. PAAs Technologies (including open source and proprietary technologies) become more scalable and integrate coordination and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, and JuJu.

The hybrid model will win the cloud computing battle, thanks to the PAAs.

Developers and businesses will soon be hit by the cloud. The new solution will put the current huge demand ("I need to use 10,000 virtual machines for 10 hours") to a large cloud architecture-a simple public cloud or private cloud model simply cannot meet this demand. While there are two years to go, the hybrid model allows businesses to create new values. Imagine: Easy bursts, easy to expand resources and a highly accelerated workload lifecycle, all of which depend on PAAs middleware management technology. PAAs will take the enterprise to where they aspire; The end user will not know or care whether they are using a public cloud or a private cloud; This will not matter, because "blending mode" will be everywhere.