Cloud PaaS use is motivated by an organisation driver for innovation - a Cloud PaaS is a key Architecture Building Block for innovation

1. Cloud PaaS and
Organisational Motivation
Robert Wilson
Solution Architect
10th May 2014
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2. Cloud PaaSand OrganisationalMotivation
Use of PaaS is motivated by an organisations’ :
• Drivers
• Goals and
• Constraints
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3. Cloud PaaSand OrganisationalDrivers
A key organisational driver is:
Innovation
Why PaaS and Innovation?
- Because to increase innovation you need to reduce the
cost of failure.
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4. Cloud PaaSand OrganisationalDrivers
PaaS reduces the cost of failure by providing services to facilitate:
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
o increased deployment frequency with reduced fear
• Lean methods
o validating hypothesis and pivoting
• Experimentation with the use of on-demand application
level services
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5. Cloud PaaSand OrganisationalGoals
The driver for an organisation to be innovative creates organisational goals
of:
Greater Agility and Adaptability
Faster Time To Market
PaaS facilitates these goals by:
- Allowing developers more time for developing
- Providing DevOps a framework and environment
- Increasing iteration frequency & smaller iterations
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6. Cloud PaaSand OrganisationalConstraints
Organisation constraints include:
Resources – people and infrastructure
Time and Budget
PaaS addresses these constraints through:
- More efficient and productive use of staff
- On demand resources
- Reduced costs
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7. Cloud PaaSin the Market Place
Some of the PaaS available in the market place:
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks
• Azure Web and Worker compute roles
• Red Hat OpenShift
• VMware Pivotal CF
• Salesforce
• IBM SmartCloud
• Engine Yard
• Google App Engine
• CloudBees
• Heroku 7

8. Conclusion
~~ Innovation is a key organisational driver ~~
and PaaS is a key Architecture Building Block for Innovation
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”
- Steve Jobs
“Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.”
- Joi Ito
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