VMware PAAs Tools Goal: Cloud Application portability

VMware PAAs tools are designed to simplify cloud application portability, but business interests are not yet at this point.

Business is all about infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and the enterprise will not seriously consider the platform as a service (PaaS) for the next 12-24 months, such as Orchestratus CEO Shlomo Swidler, Cloud Foundry,it consulting company. The development of IaaS will naturally lead these departments to PAAs.

"They will add layers and encapsulation, simplify development and management, and add tools to simplify application monitoring," Swidler said, "and they will be acutely aware that a customized, in-house PAAs has been created." You will then be prepared to consider using off-the-shelf PAAs platforms, such as Cloud Foundry. ”

Cloud Foundry Core is a new VMware PAAs tool that provides a set of benchmarking configurations where users can validate instances to improve application portability between clouds. The tool also introduces a series of new versions, current, next, and deprecated, respectively. These take precedence over the PAAs in today's enterprise market and are equivalent to standard distributed open source software, which is good for the market, Swidler explains.

Not everyone is impressed by the latest VMware PAAs release. "You have to do everything, so it's not like they're investing in application portability," says Carl Brooks, an analyst at the 451 Institute.

Over the next two years, a new generation of scalable PAAs will be based on newer lightweight programming languages, and non-traditional application middleware is valuable for businesses looking to quickly create and fix applications, John Treadway says, he is cloud Marvell Vice President of the company, a cloud service provider. Portability between the public cloud and the test and application environments in the internal environment can also become very important.

But between now and then, VMware should consider strengthening the commercial version of cloud Foundry, allowing internal businesses to use rather than tinkering with public paas,treadway, saying, "They didn't provide a basic, base backbone, Red Hat open source layer of support, They sell cloud foundry subscriptions, "he said," and that's what they're going to do now, and fast. I think there will be a lot of people in this enterprise willing to adopt. ”

A commercial version like Cloud Foundry also needs to add some better monitoring tools/or hook up with existing monitoring mechanisms, Treadway said, "They are now running as a cloud service and have integrated a lot of operational support into this product, but they are all customized, They need a more inductive ability. The