Unlike IaaS, companies utilizing PaaS receive more than on-demand hardware. At the same time, they aren't constrained by the preconfigured options of SaaS. With PaaS, companies receive a developer ...

The Netflix PaaS team attempts to provide a sensibly configured but customisable "paved road" platform for developers by offering standardised and compatible components, pre-assembling the ...

Often, such PaaS solutions provide automatic scaling, load balancing, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, CI/CD and other application life cycle management features out-of-box.

What is PaaS? Well, there does seem to be some confusion around PaaS. It’s a bit like middleware, both in what it does and in that people had trouble understanding [middleware] 10-15 years ago ...

IaaS provides efficiency but primarily just shifts costs around. PaaS doesn’t just shift costs around, it eliminates a substantial portion of them outright. * How to succeed?

Developers can be extremely productive with PaaS, in part because they don’t need to worry about defining scalability requirements, nor do they have to write deployment descriptions in XML ...

The first reports of Coghead customers successfully migrating applications to a new platform are starting to come through. Some automated tools even do instant migrations, a potentially ground ...

But PaaS revenue growth in Asia-Pacific including Japan “continues to boom,” with 14.1 percent market share in 2012 and an expected 19.0 percent in 2017.