Cloud PaaS and Organisational Motivation

Robert WilsonSolution Architect

10th May 2014au.linkedin.com/in/robertwilsonprofile

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Cloud PaaS and Organisational Motivation

Use of PaaS is motivated by an organisations’ :

• Drivers

• Goals and

• Constraints

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Cloud PaaS and Organisational Drivers

A key organisational driver is :

Innovation

Why PaaS and Innovation?

- Because to increase innovation you need to reduce the cost of failure.

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Cloud PaaS and Organisational Drivers

PaaS reduces the cost of failure by providing services to facilitate :

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

o increased deployment frequency with reduced fear

• Lean methods

o validating hypothesis and pivoting

• Experimentation with the use of on-demand application level services

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Cloud PaaS and Organisational Goals

The driver for an organisation to be innovative creates organisational goals of :

Greater Agility and Adaptability

Faster Time To Market

PaaS facilitates these goals by :

- Allowing developers more time for developing

- Providing DevOps a framework and environment

- Increasing iteration frequency & smaller iterations 5

Cloud PaaS in the Market Place

Some of the PaaS available in the market place:

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Azure Web and Worker compute roles

• Red Hat OpenShift

• VMware Pivotal CF

• Salesforce

• IBM SmartCloud

• Engine Yard

• Google App Engine

• CloudBees

• Heroku6

Conclusion

~~ Innovation is a key organisational driver ~~

and PaaS is a key Architecture Building Block for Innovation

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”

- Steve Jobs

“Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.”

- Joi Ito

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