Since the first publicly released platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering in 2005, we’ve all gotten used to seeing companies offering PaaS-based solutions intended to solve business problems. A properly implemented and managed PaaS offering allows business stakeholders to manage the applications, and its data, without having to worry about security, availability, reliability, or performance of the underlying infrastructure – but delivering that level of service requires a vendor with the right experience, skill set, and attitude.
This whitepaper covers the challenges around specifying, designing, and building a PaaS environment to support your most important business applications and how to ensure that a PaaS deployment will bring you enough benefits to justify its implementation.