Cloud Computing: The Nine Features of an Ideal PaaS Cloud
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- Marbux on 2008-07-22 - Tags cloud computing , interop , platform as a service , PAAS
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What sort of cloud computer(s) should we be building or expecting from vendors? Are there issues of lock-in that should concern customers of either SaaS clouds or PaaS clouds? I’ve been thinking about this problem as the CEO of a PaaS cloud computing company for some time. Clouds should be open. They shouldn’t be proprietary. More broadly, I believe no vendor currently does everything that’s required to serve customers well.
What’s required for such a cloud? I think an ideal PaaS cloud would have the following nine features:
What’s required for such a cloud? I think an ideal PaaS cloud would have the following nine features:
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1. Virtualization Layer Network Stability
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2. API for Creation, Deletion, Cloning of Instances
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3. Application Layer Interoperability
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4. State Layer Interoperability
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5. Application Services (e.g. email infrastructure, payments infrastructure)
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6. Automatic Scale (deploy and forget about it)
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7. Hardware Load Balancing
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8. Storage as a Service
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9. “Root”, If Required
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