Searching for PAAS providers

In near future I think everything in the IT going to be virtual. Its going to play a main role in transforming IT infrastructure toward cloud computing.

In 2011 many more enterprises virtualized and get onto private cloud journey as next step.
Surely will be great competitions between the Cloud Service providers.

We too trying to get into cloud service .As a first step our team is searching for PAAS providers which suits to develop our social media based application. We are trying for a provider which supports java.

Did some analysis on Bungee connect, Joyent & WSO2.

Regarding,
Bungee Connect – They have given as they collects no fees during the entire development process developers can freely access, develop, test, and even conduct on-line focus groups and beta programs for Bungee-powered applications.
After surfing a day, we felt this is best for us. Tried to work with beta .They have not yet released their beta work.
Might be in near future they might release the beta but we can’t wait for it.

Joyent -Fully java script based application can be build. Mainly games are developed using joyent.Having big clients. We can use any sort of editors.Price differs based on the platform .Starting from 1/4GB Standard platform $25 /month to 32GB- $4000/ month. Not having clear view for making the development environment.
Also don’t know whether it suits to build our application.

WSO2 –Specified they offer a complete lean enterprise middleware platform, available as open source.Provided all sorts of download for services like mashups,data service,gadges etc.,.Provided many video files ,tutorials to work WSO2 services.

When we go through the video, tutorial & definifiton it seems like “Spoon
Feeding”.But when tried practically something is missing. Some notch in the flow of integration.
There comes the check they have kept all sort of pricing in the name of support.Showing the great business.

We are trying this as a first application in cloud so we are not ready to afford much on this trial.

Still searching is not completed.

About CLOUD COMPUTING from a Tenderfoot

I can't say its an IN and OUT about CLOUD COMPUTING.This post might give a light idea for you before start flying into CLOUD.

Cloud computing is making a new trend and revolution for the next generation IT engineers.So many views and definitions are there on internet.This one gives a simple understanding definition for cloud computing

"A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption"

Already We are using some kind of cloud ser­vice, such as Web email (Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Hot­mail),online data stor­age (IDrive, Mozy) or online soft­ware.

Cloud Environment is divided in three segment
SAAS
PAAS
IAAS

SAAS - Software As A Service

Provides software applications to end users without requiring the end user to run the application on their own computer.
Increasingly popular with Small and medium enterprises(SMEs).
No hardware or software to manage .
Service delivered through browser.

Examples of SAAS

CRM
ERP
Project Management
Banking
Spreadsheet

PAAS - Platform As A Service
Is an environment for running custom applications that provides operating-system level services for accessing the hosting and hardware resources needed in a cloud.
Some PaaS have their own dedicated SaaS architecture (For example : Salesforce's Force.com).
Most platforms anyway allow the consumer to choose their own SaaS tools.

Example of PAAS

Google App Engine
Mosso (Hosting cloud service)
AWS: S3(A Ruby Library for Amazon's Simple Storage Service's (S3) REST API)

IAAS - Infrastructure as a service
Is a form of hosting.
It includes network access, routing services and storage.
The IaaS providers will usualy provides the hardware and administrative services needed to store applications and a platform for running applications.


The cloud has become

1.our enter­tain­ment net­work we are spend­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of hours on sites like YouTube , Flickr and so on.

2.our social net­work Face­book,Bebo, hi5 ,MySpace and sim­i­lar sites now claim hun­dreds of mil­lions of mem­bers.

3.our work­bench we man­age projects in Base­camp, share large files with Pando,tweak pho­tos in online photo edi­tors like Adobe Pho­to­shop Express and Pic­nik.

4.our devel­op­ment net­work open source pro­gram­mers trade code on sites like SourceForge.net and Drupal.org.

Still not started to fly in CLOUD.While I do,surely i will post the next.