PaaS: gaining computing power without losing control

You’ve built, tested and deployed your enterprise applications on your provider’s cloud platform, and all the bells and whistles are perfected. Then your provider increases its prices. Or maybe the level of service isn’t what you had expected. You want to change providers, but your investment has locked you in, and, frankly, now you’re stuck. Fearing this scenario, many IT architects shy away from Platform as a Service (PaaS) in spite of all its productivity benefits for developers. But it doesn’t have to play out this way.

Leveraging open-source, open-standard solutions, developers can enjoy all the advantages of PaaS while IT admins keep their data centers under their own control. The questions then become:

How does an IT architect maintain that balance?
 How do you move into the cloud without the development team learning an entirely new language or adopting new middleware? How does an IT architect streamline application development workflows and accelerate IT service delivery?

For answers to these questions, join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Red Hat for “Platform as a Service: gaining computing power without losing control,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at 10 a.m. PT.

Speaker lineup:

  • David Linthicum, GigaOM Pro research analyst and CTO and founder, Blue Mountain Labs
  • Ryan Shriver, GigaOM Pro analyst and managing consultant, Dominion Digital
  • Joe McKendrick, president and principal analyst, McKendrick & Associates
  • Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager, Red Hat

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