Gartner: Platform-as-a-Service Gaining Traction

摘要

Application building ismoving to the cloud and will come into its own as a major technology category this year, according to a recent forecast from Gartner. The IT consulting company researched this lesser discussed cloud segment, called "platform-as-a-service," or PaaS, and predicted that several large vendors will deliver new or expanded offerings throughout the rest of the year. Gartner identifies PaaS as the layer of technology that operates between the system infrastructure ingredients-such as operating systems, networks, virtualization, and storage-and the application layer.