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Chapter 2: Getting into Platform as a Service 21
Seeing the Business Value
of Using a PaaS
You can enjoy a number of business benefits from using a
PaaS. This section includes those perks.
Reducing costs
PaaS can certainly reduce costs. And in order to evaluate the
economic impact of PaaS, take a look at the costs that are
directly and indirectly related to the application or type of workload
you want to move to the cloud. These costs may include
✓ Server and storage overhead: Unused computing capacity
requires power and cooling to run as well as demanding
floor space that’s often a huge expense for companies.
✓ Network: Network bandwidth in data centers isn’t unlimited.
Many companies find moving commodity services
to cloud-based services more cost effective. This practice
frees up expensive network capacity, floor space,
and energy consumption.
✓ Software maintenance: The cost of managing software
updates and changes is often a burden to development and
operational organizations and a huge expense both in terms
of time and money. While a platform requires a per-user,
per-month charge, the cost is typically offset by the cost of
software license costs and yearly maintenance fees.
✓ Support personnel: These costs include staff responsible
for everything from storage and archiving to patch management,
networks and security, and help desk.
Improving speed, flexibility,
and agility
Continuous delivery, if adopted, is the ultimate goal to get
products to market faster and to align with agile development
practices. PaaS can help