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David.Linthicum@cloudtp.com / Senior Vice President / May 6, 2013
Next Generation IaaS, PaaS &
Database as a Service

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Understanding the Emerging Patterns of Architecture
High Growth Expected in Cloud
Infrastructure Services

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IaaS

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Gartner recently reported that
IaaS continues to be the
fastest growing of the current
cloud services. In 2012 it grew
42.4 percent to $6.1 billion
and has an expected growth
of 47.3 percent in 2013 to $9
billion.
IaaS is Growing Fast

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External Service Providers Being Considered for IaaS (or Cloud IaaS)

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The Most Popular IaaS

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AWS

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CloudStack

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OpenStack

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Database-as-a-Service

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Service-Enabled Database Access Methods

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Cloud Database Vendors by Deployment & Data Model

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PaaS

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• Good
– Budget - It’s cheap.
– Power - It scales.
– Development – It’s productive.
• Bad
– Limitations - Can only use what’s there.
– Standards - Few exist.
PaaS in the Real World

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Major PaaS Players
Most Popular
Most Misunderstood
New Guy

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• Sandbox approach
(top down)
• Highly limited
• Simplicity tradeoff at
expense of developer
control
Google App Engine

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Heroku
Routing
Mesh
Dyno
Grid
SQL
Database
Memory
Cache
• Sandbox approach
(top down)
• Highly limited
• Simplicity tradeoff at
expense of developer
control

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Elastic Beanstalk
Application
• Bottom-up approach
• Simplicity with a higher degree
of control for the developer
Elastic Beanstalk
Auto
Scaling
http://myapp-staging.elasticbeanstalk.com/
Apache
Tomcat
Amazon Linux AMI
Your Running Application
VersionVersion
VersionEnvironment
ElasticBeanstalk
HostManager

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• Make sure to consider the target application.
– Static application requirements often lead to PaaS not being a fit.
• Make sure to consider resources required.
– PaaS clouds limit use of resources, or they become too expensive quickly.
• Make sure to consider data persistence.
– Data support varies greatly.
• Make sure not to get religious around the languages.
– “We’ll do it in any language as long as it’s Python.”
• Make sure to consider leveraging the outside world.
– Need to interact with other clouds, and on-premise systems.
• Make sure to consider staging and testing.
Real World Advice

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• Start with the data, and work up to the services and UI. Not matter what the PaaS
provider suggests.
• Create an initial POC, and make sure to validate the complete stack.
• Define a staging and testing strategy before you begin development.
• Consider SOA approaches in the design and deployment of the PaaS-based
application.
• Make sure to do load testing along with functional testing.
• Make sure to model performance.
• Don’t fall in love with a PaaS player. You may need to use several.
Best Practices

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Disruption Vectors Relative Importance
Application development 20%
Application infrastructure 30%
Database management 25%
Application deployment 10%
Business intelligence 10%
Application security 5%
Sum 100%
PaaS Attributes

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Vector: Application Development
• Company: Google
• Company: Salesforce.com
• Company: Engine Yard
Vector: Application Infrastructure
• Company: Amazon
• Company: Google
• Company: Microsoft
Vector: Database Management
• Company: Amazon
• Company: Google
• Company: Microsoft
PaaS Provider Ranking

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Relative Importance of PaaS Platform Disruption Vectors

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PaaS Platform Vendors Scored Against Disruption Vectors

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Ask by email / David.Linthicum@cloudtp.com / www.cloudtp.com
Questions?