Platform as a Service on the cusp of growth

Friday, February 03, 2012

A core layer of cloud services may soon be seeing some big-time growth, according to Gartner. The company said Platform as a Service's evolution will affect users and enterprise companies.

"With large and growing vendor investment in PaaS, the market is on the cusp of several years of strategic growth, leading to innovation and likely breakthroughs in technology and business use of all of cloud computing," said Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "Users and vendors of enterprise IT software solutions that are not yet engaged with PaaS must begin building expertise in PaaS or face tough challenges from competitors in the coming years."

Gartner said PaaS is a layer of the cloud that has all of the application infrastructure services. The market for this is still in the early stage of growth and doesn't yet have well-established players, but Natis said products are likely to become a major component of the cloud in the coming years.

BizCloudNetwork said PaaS cloud services can help centralize resources for a company, enhance the reliability of development and remove maintenance costs associated with a large computing resource.