PaaS is today where cloud computing was in 2008/2009: poised for growth, subject to increasing hype, and expanding from an original focus on public clouds to private ones.

The platform as a service (PaaS) market is expected to reach $6.45bn by 2016 and grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 50%, with application infrastructure and middleware PaaS ...

At Cloud Expo last week, many vendors focused on “private PaaS” as a form of cloud computing. They follow the logic that if you can have a private (IaaS) cloud, then you certainly can have a ...

How does security apply to Cloud Computing? In this article, we address this question by listing the five top security challenges for Cloud Computing, and examine some of the solutions to ensure ...

Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and incumbent system ...

Everything in the cloud seems to be getting bigger or smaller. VMware today went the small route, releasing an updated micro version of the company's popular open source platform as a service ...

Cloud computing services fall into four broad categories, namely infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), serverless and software as a service (SaaS), offering different ...