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access to container-based infrastructure. It hosts,
orchestrates, schedules, scales and ensures the reliability
of containers. It may also provide other capabilities, such
as monitoring, load balancing and securing container
communications.
“For advanced technical teams a container service may be
better than a PaaS framework for the desired balance
between developer productivity, breadth of viable
application architectures, IT operations control, and the
complexity of implementation,” said Lydia Leong, vice
president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “A
container service is also a relatively inexpensive
acquisition alternative to PaaS frameworks.”
Through 2018, more than 80 percent of organizations that
deploy or assemble self-managed PaaS frameworks will
not achieve the expected cloud PaaS experience.
By investing in cloud platforms, enterprise IT leaders are
seeking some or all of the key benefits of cloud for their
new IT initiatives. However, in the next three years, many
self-managed private PaaS initiatives will fail to meet the IT
organization
leadership’s
expectations
of
cloud
characteristics. The tension between the forces in favor of
private PaaS and those demanding the full public cloud
experience will intensify as self-managed private cloud
disappoints. Managed private (or public) PaaS will emerge
as best practices.
“Success with a private cloud (including PaaS) requires a
recognition of the essential cultural and organizational
changes to IT organizations, as well as technology
changes,” said Yefim V. Natis, vice president and Gartner
Fellow. “Lacking this understanding leads many
organizations to stop their PaaS investment at the point of
technology deployment — leading to disappointing results
down the road.”
By 2019, a mandatory capability for the top five aPaaS
providers will be the delivery of both high-productivity and
high-control PaaS options.
Large organizations facing a variety of requirements in the
bimodal world will prefer aPaaS suites that can provide
integrated high-control and high-productivity capabilities
and, as such, these service providers will receive
preferential treatment in the market. Combined capabilities
will become a requirement for aPaaS market leadership.
More detailed analysis is available in the report “Predicts
2016: PaaS Innovation Continues Unabated.”
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