PaaS simply isn’t used as much by enterprises as initially predicted. Although PaaS offerings vary greatly, most provide facilities for application design, deployment, testing, and self ...

The initial PaaS offerings were Heroku (acquired by Salesforce) and Engine Yard (once a high flier but now, at least by my assessment, languishing in obscurity).

PaaS is a common reference to the layer of cloud technology architecture that contains all application infrastructure services, which are also known as "middleware" in other contexts.

PaaS offerings will mature and expand the depth and breadth of their features. For example, as part of the expansion of the scope of their ecosystem services, in the next two years PaaS offerings will ...

However, debugging this took longer than deploying on other PaaS offerings, so we gave up. Conclusions. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is a middle ground between an IaaS and a PaaS.

More advanced PaaS offerings even offer advanced architecture patterns, frameworks, and platform services such as caching via APIs that guest applications can use.

Tishgart says other similar PaaS offerings, such as Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), require users to move data from S3 to another service before they can do anything useful with it.

He points out that Phunware’s recent divestiture of Lyte and its transition towards a full SaaS model should streamline the company’s focus on higher-margin Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.

Red Hat's OpenShift is the first in a series of platform-as-a-service offerings to feature Jaspersoft's suite Open source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become ...

Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments.

Since CumuLogic launched earlier this year, multiple downloadable PaaS offerings have emerged, including VMware’s Cloud Foundry , CloudBees’ RUN@Cloud and Red Hat’s OpenShift .

I’ve been following Java-centric Platform-as-a-Service startup CloudBees for a while now, so I wasn’t too surprised when I learned it had closed a $10.5 million Series B funding round. PaaS is ...