Guests:
Phil Wainewright, independent analyst, Director of Procullux Ventures, and ZDNet SaaS blogger
Alex Barnett, VP Community, Bungee Labs
Moderator:
Dana Gardner, principal analyst, Interarbor Solutions
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Transcript:
"Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're listening to BriefingsDirect.
Today, a sponsored podcast discussion about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). We're looking at an entire lifecycle approach to services on the Web for development, integration, and deployment. We are going to be talking about Bungee Labs, the sponsor of our podcast and take a deep look at how they approach PaaS.
I think it's important for us to get into this topic to understand its wide-reaching implications. PaaS is really taking the best of some of the old and the new that's now available to developers and architects -- and it really puts a new spin on Web-oriented architecture (WOA).
For example, many developers can use tools that are fleet and easy as they approach rapid application development (RAD) and agile development. But when it comes to the flip side -- the deployment -- there are still gaps in many cases a hand-off. There is also an opportunity, now that users are increasingly on the Web, to use mashups and open APIs.
To take advantage of data independence -- data that can be acquired, used, and mashed-up from the variety of sources -- including services-orientation from inside the firewall, from within legacy applications. What's nice about the PaaS approach is that the scale on the deployment can go up very rapidly and scale down efficiently in terms of cost. In many respects, we are now leveraging the incredible value that comes from not having to pay upfront in capital expenses for applications and infrastructure, but instead can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go, metered approach." More...
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