1. Author of this mindmap
1.1. Name - George Chou
1.2. email - George.Chou@theCloudnomics.com
1.3. Twitter - @GeorgeChouNext - https://twitter.com/GeorgeChouNext
2. Version
2.1. 1.0
2.2. Latest Update: 08/02/2013
2.3. Comments highly welcome
3. References
3.1. References - 20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors of the Cloud 100
3.2. Comparison / General
3.2.1. Information Weeks - PaaS Provider Comparison
3.2.2. PaaS PHP Cloud Platform comparison list
3.2.3. PaaS Buyer's Guide
3.2.4. Dissecting the PaaS Landscape - Rishidot Research (3/25/2013)
3.3. Analysis/News
3.3.1. Composable or Contextual PaaS - Way of thinking
3.3.2. Insights from PaaS Pioneers
3.3.2.1. Report
3.3.2.2. Infographic
4. Future of PaaS
4.1. Currently PaaS 1.0
4.2. Future PaaS 2.0 - Focus on Intelligence Integration
4.2.1. Data/Information as a Service
4.2.1.1. Big Data
4.2.1.2. Analystics
5. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
6. Cloudify
6.1. General
6.1.1. Tag line - Take ANY App. To ANY Cloud. With NO code change. At the CLICK of a button.
6.1.2. General Intro Video
6.1.3. YouTube Channel
6.1.4. How does it work?
6.1.5. Originate from Israel
6.2. Major Characteristics
6.2.1. Open Source - CloudifySource
6.3. Analysis/News
6.3.1. Blog
6.3.2. Personal Notes
6.3.2.1. Not sure this can be qualified as real PaaS from my personal opinion, since it mainly
6.3.2.1.1. Ease the application cloud onboarding
6.3.2.1.2. Focus on deployment and run time
6.3.2.1.3. And some application monitoring/scaling
6.3.2.1.4. It does not address programming model/framework at all
7. AppHarbor
7.1. General
7.1.1. Feature Matrix
7.2. Major Characteristics
7.2.1. Utilize IaaS - AWS
7.3. Analysis/News
8. dotCloud
8.1. General
8.1.1. Feature Matrix
8.2. Major Characteristics
8.2.1. Utilize IaaS - AWS
8.3. Analysis/News
9. IronFoundry
9.1. General
9.2. Major Characteristics
9.3. Analysis/News
10. CloudFoundry
10.1. General
10.1.1. Feature Matrix
10.1.2. CloudFoundry Core Program.
10.1.2.1. Definition
10.1.2.1.1. A baseline of common capabilities to promote cloud portability across different instances of Cloud Foundry.
10.1.2.1.2. Further, it provides an open mechanism that lets anyone instantly validate and confirm the specific frameworks and applications supported by a particular instance of Cloud Foundry and determine whether it supports Cloud Foundry Core
10.1.2.2. This helps developers to Identify providers that preserve cloud application portability.
10.1.2.3. Let Cloud Providers connect with developers looking to preserve application portability
10.2. Major Characteristics
10.3. Analysis/News
10.3.1. (04/24/2013) GE invested into Pivotal - This should give a strong endorsement to CloudFoundry technology
10.3.2. Cloud Foundry announces V2.0 and depreciate V1.0 (6/10/2013)
10.3.3. IBM and Pivotal join force on CloudFoundry (7/24/2013)
10.4. Others
10.4.1. Iron Foundry provide .NET support for CloudFoundry
10.4.2. Baidu's experience in using CloudFoundry V1 and V2.
11. OpenShift
11.1. General
11.1.1. Service Status - Developer Preview (4/1/2013)
11.1.2. Feature Matrix
11.2. Major Characteristics
11.2.1. Utilize IaaS - AWS
11.3. Analysis/News
11.3.1. Red Hat announces general availability on 6/11/2013 for OpenShift online
12. Snapp
12.1. General
12.1.1. 5/1/2013 Launched. In Beta
13. Apprenda
13.1. General
13.1.1. Feature Matrix
13.1.2. See Apprenda action in Hybrid Cloud (video)
13.2. Major Characteristics
13.2.1. Only support C#/.NET and Java languages
13.3. Analysis/News
13.3.1. Briefing note from Rishidot Research
14. CloudBees
14.1. General
14.1.1. Feature Matrix
14.2. Major Characteristics
14.2.1. Only support Java languages
14.2.2. AnyCloud
14.2.2.1. Can run on private cloud (vSphere) - Hybrid Cloud
14.2.2.2. Utilized IaaS - AWS
14.2.2.3. Utilize OpenStack
14.3. Analysis/News
14.3.1. Support Java EE 7 environment (6/13/2013)
15. WSO2
15.1. General
15.1.1. Learning Materials
15.2. Major Characteristics
15.3. Analysis/News
15.3.1. 6/12/2013 SUSE and WSO2 Deliver Enterprise PaaS Using OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud.
16. Oracle
16.1. General
16.1.1. Feature Matrix
16.1.2. Java focus
16.2. Major Characteristics
16.3. Analysis/News
17. Objective of this Mindmap
17.1. Major PaaS Players / Offerings in High Level
17.2. One stop to get ease access to general and high level information
17.3. Quote - "With large and growing vendor investment in PaaS, the market is on the cusp of several years of strategic growth, leading to innovation and likely breakthroughs in technology and business use of all of cloud computing" - Yefim Natis, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
18. What? and Why?
18.1. PaaS Definition
18.1.1. Comprehensive/elastic/on-demand computing platform that allows the creation of web applications quickly and easily in agile fashion without the complexity of buying and maintaining the software and infrastructure underneath it.
18.2. PaaS Characteristics
18.2.1. Services to develop, test, deploy, host and maintain applications in the same integrated development environment. All the varying services needed to fulfill the application development process.
18.2.2. Web-based UI creation tools
18.2.3. Multi-tenant architecture
18.2.4. Built-in scalability of deployed software (load balancing and failover)
18.2.5. Support for development team collaboration
18.2.6. Tools to handle billing & subscription managment
18.3. Why PaaS?
18.3.1. Abstraction
18.3.2. Collaboration with external development parties
18.3.3. Ease Agile Development Methodology
18.3.4. Highly leverage underlying software component/stacks
18.4. Why NOT PaaS?
18.4.1. Performance requiring tuning/customization of underlying hardware and software
18.4.2. High Portability
18.5. PaaS Adaption Drivers
18.5.1. Scalability
18.5.2. Innovation
18.5.3. ROI / Productivity
18.5.4. Managed Application Delivery
18.5.5. Developer Community
18.5.6. Service/Data Market Place
19. PaaS Segment
19.1. Classification Type One
19.1.1. Hosted PaaS
19.1.2. Hybrid/Private PaaS with infrastructure abstraction
19.1.3. Hybrid/Private PaaS with tight control over the infrastructure
19.2. Classification Type Two
19.2.1. Comprehensive - Focus on supporting wide ranges of languages and/or environment
19.2.2. Specific - Target specific, standard enterprise-focus stacks
19.2.3. Proprietary - Proprietary scripting languages/configurations
20. IBM SmartCloud Application Services
20.1. General
20.1.1. Introduction
20.1.1.1. Webcast on demand
20.1.1.2. PaaS multifacet potential (YouTube)
20.1.2. Pricing
20.1.3. Language: Java only. PHP on the roadmap
20.1.4. Two primary services today (3/2013) - V1.0
20.1.4.1. Version 1.0 - 12/18/2012
20.1.4.2. Collaborative Lifecycle Management Service
20.1.4.2.1. Component: Rational Team Concert
20.1.4.2.2. Component: Rational Requirements Composer
20.1.4.2.3. Component: Rational Quality Manager
20.1.4.3. Workload Service
20.1.4.3.1. Brain - IBM Workload Deployer
20.1.4.3.2. Deploy Virtual System Pattern & Virtual Application Pattern
20.1.5. Feature Matrix (3/2013)
20.1.6. Version 1.1
20.1.6.1. Announced - 5/28/2013
20.1.6.1.1. Improved Patterns
20.1.6.1.2. Improved data management for production databases
20.2. Major Characteristics
20.2.1. Utilized IaaS - IBM SmartCloud Enterprise IaaS
20.3. Analysis/News
20.3.1. IBM endorse Openstack and is going to integrate and leverage OpenStack for her IaaS offering
20.3.1.1. News from AllthingsD
20.3.1.2. More insights from IBMer
20.3.2. SmartCloud Enterprise no-charge trial rolls out (5/28/2013)
20.3.3. IBM acquires Softlayer (6/4/2013)
20.3.4. IBM and Pivotal join force on CloudFoudry (7/24/2013) - So what will happen to IBM SmartCloud offering?
21. Engine Yard
21.1. General
21.1.1. Feature Matrix
21.2. Major Characteristics
21.2.1. Use Cloud Foundry
21.2.2. Utilized IaaS - their own data center
21.3. Analysis/News
22. Microsoft Windows Azure
22.1. General
22.1.1. Feature Matrix
22.2. Major Characteristics
22.2.1. Utilized IaaS - their own data center
22.3. Analysis/News
23. Staccato
23.1. General
23.2. Major Characteristics
23.2.1. Based on Cloud Foundry(Fork)
23.3. Analysis/News
23.3.1. 2.10 release (4/2013)
23.3.2. HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service is public cloud version of Stackato
23.3.3. ActiveState acquires AppSecute for social DevOp Technology - Stackato + Appsecute will merge three fundamental cloud concepts into a single solution: PaaS, DevOps, and social collaboration
24. Heroku
24.1. General
24.1.1. Heroku owned by SalesForce
24.1.2. Feature Matrix
24.2. Major Characteristics
24.2.1. Utilize IaaS - AWS
24.3. Analysis/News
25. Google App Engine
25.1. General
25.1.1. Feature Matrix
25.1.2. 2013 Google I/O full sessions on Google Cloud Platform
25.2. Major Characteristics
25.2.1. Utilized IaaS - their own data center
25.3. Analysis/News
25.3.1. Google announces support of PHP during 2013 Google I/O conference
25.3.2. 1.8.1 Released (6/12/2013)
25.3.3. 1.8.2 Released (7/17/2013)
25.3.4. CapeDwarf - The ultimate goal of the CapeDwarf project is to fully implement all the APIs of the Google App Engine.
25.3.4.1. Google Cloud Platform Blog
25.3.5. 1.8.3 Released(8/7/2013)
25.3.5.1. Load Balance for Layer 3
25.3.5.2. New features and Productivity Improvement - Google Datastore
25.3.5.3. PHP run time engine improvement for Google Apple Engine
26. AppFog
26.1. General
26.1.1. Feature Matrix
26.1.2. Have Enterprise/Private Cloud Offering
26.2. Major Characteristics
26.2.1. Use Cloud Foundry
26.2.2. Utilize IaaS - AWS
26.2.3. Utilize IaaS - Rackspace
26.3. Analysis/News
26.3.1. Appfog has been bought by Savvis (6/14/2013)
27. Cumulogic
27.1. General
27.1.1. Feature
27.1.2. Datasheet
27.2. Major Characteristics
27.2.1. Private Cloud PaaS
27.3. Analysis/News
28. OrangeScape
28.1. General
28.1.1. Tagline - Write Once. Cloud Anywhere