Going to CAMP on the cloud

Platform-as-a-service has been getting a pass — if you’ll excuse the pun — from organizations, despite the rush to cloud solutions.
 
A group of vendors including Oracle Corp. Red Hat and others are trying to do something about it, as this story from ComputerWorld U.S. reports.
 
They’ve submitted a standard called Cloud Application Management for Platforms to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) which they hope will allow organizations to embrace PaaS.
 
 
 
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The caution by organizations to adopt PaaS comes in part because the technology has so many flavours. Many IT administrators know PaaS providers like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azuure. But the market is getting crowded, with infrastructure-as-a-service providers offering PaaS versions that differ from ones offered by platform-as-a-service providers.
 
The CAMP backers hope their API will be recognized by PaaS providers to make things easier for customers.
 

Last month Oracle released its Public Cloud platform, which offers PaaS and Saas capabilities.

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Howard Solomon
Howard Solomon
Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

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