Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem.
Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure.
AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java world, has recently hosted the most used language on the web, PHP, and for a couple of days it has even hosted .Net. In addition, the famous AWS RDS (Relational Database Services) service created to host MySQL, then recently Oracle, has been allowing SQLServer instances for a couple of days.
VMware, after buying Zimbra, Spring Source, RabbitMQ and Hyperic (through Spring), which has also been a wavemaker for a year now, thus reveals the intentions of the famous and large datacenter started building in 2009 in Washington, as well as the latest strategies with partners. A year ago, VMware presented the PaaS solution for the opensource world CloudFoundry, a solution that also allows you to make your own beautiful Private PaaS at home, just change the .com domain to .org. In addition, as with Microsoft’s Visual Studio, which in addition to having classes for Azure integrated, has mini-engines for offline testing of Azure, it also allows Cloud Foundry through MicroCloudFoundry, a server micro-instance with everything you need to test PaaS development with Cloud Foundry.
Rightscale didn’t have to do much to make sure that its advanced cloud management platform would allow Cloud Foundry to be instantiated on AWS.
At the same time, Redhat is in direct competition with CloudFoundry, with the OpenShift project, to which it integrates a fully integrated private IaaS+PaaS solution (CloudForms + OpenShift)
engineYard known for supporting the Ruby world, bought orchestra to enter the PHP world, these are PaaS platforms hosted on AWS
Google AppEngine , on the other hand, remains firm in its support for Java and Python
Zend , the well-known company that develops the PHP language and its well-known framework, offers a phpcloud solution, thanks to which it allows the development and deployment of our solution in the most popular public clouds (RackSpace, AWS, IBM, HP)
IBM Smart Cloud PaaS is one of the cloud services offered by IBM, but it doesn’t seem to be easy to understand details such as supported languages and databases
HP Cloud, HP’s most or oldest, clearest and most explicit offering from IBM.
Force.com Salesforce’s platform consisting of force.com, database.com (awesome domain), and heroku.
Heroku, an articulated platform (AWS hosted), as we have seen with excellent partners (salesforce and facebook), the platform has an infinite number of add-ons all big names in the opensource world or platforms well known among the developer communities.
PHPFog, an interesting PaaS (judging by the powers described in the pricing it looks like AWS hosted), born last year, makes you understand the power of PHP and how much it was needed for the world of PHP developers. Within a few weeks of launch, they had +10000 registrations for the beta, while Heroku struggled for a year to have the same numbers.
CloudForge introduces a new term Development Platform as a Service (dPaaS), it contrasts a bit with Zend’s phpcloud, bringing together in a single platform team collaboration, code versioning, deployment on public and private clouds and application monitoring with scalability logics, inserting the current and strong concept of app marketplace that is exploding everywhere (recently also AWS). In this case, an app is the complete application solution, such as a wordpress, a joomla, a sugarcrm.
Joyent has recently been moving strongly in the cloud world, especially for us Italians, as Libero.it has recently launched a cloud offer based on Joyent’s solutions, importing the infrastructure model and hosting it in its own datacenters. Joyent has always been a good provider for hosting code, launching an excellent offer for facebook apps from the beginning. Joyent’s cloud offering covers the entire stack, IaaS, PaaS, Appliance and Orchestration.
Joyent’s message relies too heavily on the benchmark against AWS and the use of the ZFS filesystem, which has been known since the days of SUN.
We have omitted many others, but we will leave the overview and comparison of the services during the EuroCloud Day event, Wednesday 23 May 2012, at the CUOA Foundation, Villa Valmarana Morosini, Altavilla Vicentina (VI), during the WorkShop in the morning, 9.30 am – 12.50 pm.
“Cloud Computing (PaaS, Platform as a Service)”
Workshop with limited places ***
Addressed to:
SW Architects and CTO of ISVs, Project Managers of System Integrators, CIOs and IT Managers of user companies.
The speeches will have a strong technical connotation and will allow participants to grasp the aspects that characterize three of the most advanced platforms available on the market today, each with peculiarities suitable for projects of a different nature.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT PART OF THE WORKSHOP WILL BE IN ENGLISH
- 09:30 – 09:50 Registrations
- 10:00 Introduction to PaaS – Fabio Cecaro, Cloud Architect and VP EuroCloud Italy
- 10:10 Amazon Web Services – Carlos Conde, Amazon Web Services
- 10:55 Microsoft Windows Azure – Fabio Santini, Microsoft Corp.
- 11:40 Google App Engine – Tom Grey, Google Corp.
- 12:25 Debriefing – Interaction with participants, moderator Fabio Cecaro
- Q&A
- 12:50 End of work