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A series of recent surveys on the subject seems to indicate that this is indeed the case: Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 percent revealed plans to
amazon
Cloud bursting is an application deployment model in which an application runs in a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes. The advantage of such a hybrid cloud deployment is that an organization only pays for extra compute resources
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The term "cloud portability" is often considered a synonym for "Cloud API portability," which implies a series of misconceptions. If we break away from dogma, we can find that what we really looking for in cloud portability is Application portability between clouds which can be a
gigaspaces
Yesterday, I had a session during the OpenStack Summit where I tried to present a more general view on how we should be thinking about PaaS in the context of OpenStack. The key takeaway : The main goal of PaaS is to drive productivity into the process by which we can
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Gartner published recently an interesting paper: Productivity vs. Control: Cloud Application Platforms Must Split to Win . (The paper requires registration.) The paper does a pretty good job covering the evolution that is taking place in the PaaS market toward a more open platform and compares between the two main categories:
Java
Google App Engine (GAE) is focused on making development easy, but limits your options. Amazon Web Services is focused on making development flexible, but complicates the development process. Real enterprise applications require both of these paradigms to achieve success… What we really want is the flexibility of AWS and the