Enterprise application integration (EAI) best practices are based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles and a flexible, highly capable SOA Platform. An enterprise service bus (ESB), API management, governance registry, and identity services are the cornerstones of successful SOA infrastructure platforms.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
What is Cloud Foundry?
The PaaS on PaaS marketure has me confused. The ecosystem surrounding Cloud Foundry demonstrates how PaaS, the middle level between SaaS and IaaS is actually a multi-layered market space. A way to unwind the recursive relationship between Cloud Foundry and ecosystem partners is to first start calling the technology a ‘cloud-enabled platform’, and limit PaaS as an instantiation of the cloud-enabled platform delivered as a service. The CloudFoundry ecosystem partners (e.g. AppFog, Stackato, Uhuru, Tier3) seem to be competing on ease of use enhancements, bundled technology (e.g. language support, cache support, database support), or managed hosting.
What is Platform as a Service (Paas)?
Platform as a Service resides within the space between Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
How to simplify Platform as a Service complexity
Ben Kepes posted a good discussion on LinkedIn, Cloud computing and the concealment of complexity.. . Ben summarizes his position in a call to action at the end of the post:
“Let’s make this stuff as simple as possible, articulating complexity does much to build barriers to cloud adoption….”