PaaS

"Application infrastructure functionality, enriched with cloud characteristics and offered as a service,

is platform as a service (PaaS). Gartner refers to it more precisely as cloud application infrastructure services."

"Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a form of PaaS that provides a platform to

support application development, deployment and execution in the cloud."

Pure PaaS players

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Red Hat OpenShift.
• Aprendaa.
• Heroku.
• Engine Yard.

IaaS hybrid players

• Google?
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services?
• Amazon AWS
• ...

SaaS hybrids players

• Salesforce
• ...

PaaS frameworks

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Red Hat OpenShift.
• Apache Stratos.

Related software

• OpenStack
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Chef

References

•  PaaS and IaaS have really crossed features: http://www.gfi.com/blog/is-paas-the-new-cloud-or-a-passe-term/
• aPaaS Grtner Magic Quadrant 2015: https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/files/GARTNER_COMP_magic_quadrant_for_enterpris_271188_Bluemix.pdf