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Market Profile: Platform as a Service 2011
8 February 2011
 
Richard Watson  

Developers want to cut code, not configure guest OSs, storage blocks, or virtual-machine Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Whereas hardware infrastructure as a service (HIaaS) delivers services for system administrators, PaaS delivers services for developers. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings provide externally hosted, self-service platforms for building and running applications and services. In this market profile, Research Director Richard Watson examines PaaS providers against next-generation cloud platform requirements and identifies trends shaping this nascent market. One key trend: PaaS adoption lags HIaaS and software as a service (SaaS). What factors are holding back enterprise PaaS adoption? How are PaaS vendors addressing adoption barriers?





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Summary of Findings
  • Gartner's Opinion
  • Market Landscape
    • Market Definition
      • Defining Platform as a Service
      • Related and Adjacent Markets
    • Market Segmentation
      • Cloud Residency
      • Vendor Size and Viability
      • PaaS Abstraction Type
      • Platform Architecture Characteristics
  • Market Dynamics
    • Market Drivers
      • Who Is in the Market for PaaS?
      • Customer Requirements
      • Application Migration
      • Barriers to Mainstream Adoption
    • Technology Trends
      • Cloud-Enabled Application Platforms (CEAPs)
      • Metadata Configuration, Not Code
      • Data Models: No One Size Fits All
      • The Need for a New Development Model
      • Resistance to Change
    • Vendor Trends
      • Market Maturity Barometer
      • Responding to Anemic Adoption
      • PaaS Leaders Have an Embrace-and-Invest Strategy
      • Only Developer Ecosystems Can Make Platforms Successful
    • Futures
      • Lack of Relevant Skills Becomes a PaaS Adoption Barrier
      • Open Source PaaS Will Play an Important Market Role
      • Incumbent Platform Players Will Wake Up
      • Many Smaller PaaS Vendors Will Not Survive
  • Further Information
  • Recommended Reading
  • Notes
Tables
Table 1.
Distinguishing Cloudy Application Platform Options
Table 2.
Customer Requirements Driving the PaaS Market
Table 3.
Comparing Web Application Model to Cloud-Optimized Application Model
Table 4.
Players in the PaaS Market with Ecosystem Advantages
Figures
Figure 1.
IT1 Reference Architecture Template for Application Platforms
Figure 2.
Segmenting the PaaS Market by Cloud Residency
Figure 3.
Segmenting the PaaS Market by Vendor Size
Figure 4.
Segmenting the PaaS Market by Abstraction Type
Figure 5.
Segmenting the PaaS Market by Architecture Characteristics
Figure 6.
Audience Segments Making Up the Demand Side of the PaaS Market
Figure 7.
Cloud Application Migration Options
Figure 8.
PaaS Adoption Trends Mapped to Five Cloud Migration Options




Document History:
 
Market Profile: Platform as a Service 2011
8 February 2011
  
Market Profile: Platform as a Service 2009
22 September 2009
  




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