PaaS to Heat Up in 2014 and Red Hat Is Not Yielding to Pivotal

Charlotte Dunlap

Summary Bullets:

• 2014 will be the year PaaS providers need to demonstrate their cloud success through customer wins.
• Red Hat is relentless in its challenge to Pivotal Cloud Foundry through continued PaaS enhancements.

Following a flurry of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) events this year, 2014 is the year for application platform providers to button down customer wins and prove they’ve got cloud offerings that deliver on the goods.  The PaaS area of cloud computing, in which customers have been slow to adopt, holds the promise of significantly easing and speeding application development and deployment through self-service capabilities, elasticity, and multi-tenancy.