Platform as a Service

Platform as a Service is a cloud service model where the vendor provides a platform for development and deployment of cloud application over an abstracted hardware. PaaS solutions enable users to directly develop their applications without worrying about the complexity of setting up the hardware or system software. This chapter describes some popular cloud solutions that are examples of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model of cloud delivery. The platform case studies discussed in this chapter are Microsoft Azure, Apache Hadoop, IBM PureXML, Yahoo! Mashups and others. Azure is a popular platform that enables developers familiar with Windows-based programming to create cloud applications using .NET. Hadoop is yet another cloud platform that has received a lot of developer attention due to the simplicity with which it enables one to create high-performing distributed applications. Platforms that enable data-oriented applications such as Mashups and those that provide special features for data manipulation such as pureXML from IBM are discussed in this chapter as well.

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