Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Discovering the full potential of PaaS

January 20 2012 @8:39 AM
By: Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
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For many enterprises, their first experience with cloud computing is using infrastructure as a service (IaaS). IaaS allows enterprises to move many existing applications into a cloud environment “as is,” benefiting from rapid, on-demand capacity and moving from owning and managing the physical infrastructure to “renting” the capacity as it’s needed.  More...
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Defining PaaS: A flexible solution to meet your needs

January 11 2012 @11:53 AM
By: Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
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While the cloud topic has moved to the mainstream, there is still much variation with how vendors, analysts and other experts define various cloud offerings. This is particularly the case when it comes to PaaS (platform as a service).I like to refer to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) definition. In a paper published this past September, “The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing,” the authors cite this for PaaS: More...
Brian Cann

Speaking on the cloud at the Gartner Symposium

November 4 2011 @1:11 PM
By: Brian Cann
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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo on CGI’s complete cloud approach. This is a great event to meet with senior IT leaders from all industries, such as healthcare, banking, education and all levels of the public sector, from federal civilian and defense agencies to state, provincial and local governments. It’s the type of event where you get a good pulse on the common challenges that all of these executives face no matter their sector. More...

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