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PaaS Road Map: A Continent Emerging
14 January 2011
 
Yefim V. Natis   Benoit J. Lheureux   Massimo Pezzini   David W. Cearley   Eric Knipp   Daryl C. Plummer  

Cloud middleware services, also known as platform as a service, is a new battlefield in which the leading software vendors compete for industry influence and market leadership. Users will benefit from rapid innovation and will pay to transition to a new IT model.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • Application Infrastructure: The Architectural Center of Software
    • The PaaS Road Map
    • PaaS Circa 2011: A Fragmented Best-of-Breed Field
    • PaaS Circa 2013: Use-Pattern-Targeted PaaS Suites
    • PaaS Circa 2015: A Comprehensive PaaS
    • Private and Community PaaS
    • Understanding the PaaS Market
    • Looking to 2011: The Year of PaaS
Figures
Figure 1.
Application Infrastructure at the Center of the IT Software Stack
Figure 2.
PaaS Vendors in 2011
Figure 3.
PaaS Road Map (2011 to 2015)




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