Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide
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NTT Communications<br />
NTT Communications is a large, well-recognized, proven global sourcing carrier service provider<br />
and cloud service provider, with headquarters in Tokyo and many regional offices globally.<br />
NTT Communications' Cloud n PaaS is a high-control aPaaS on top of its public IaaS offering,<br />
introduced in April 2013. The service leverages Pivotal Cloud Foundry <strong>as</strong> an enabling technology, to<br />
which NTT Communications added "cloudiness" characteristics.<br />
The vendor h<strong>as</strong> succeeded in earning a good presence in the IaaS business among demanding<br />
large enterprises. Its PaaS business is a strategic piece in expanding its strength across the larger<br />
cloud service stack (both in public and private deployments) and its business ecosystem, on top of<br />
its telecommunications service capability.<br />
Strengths<br />
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The vendor's Cloud n PaaS h<strong>as</strong> approximately 500 customers and supports multiple application<br />
server containers (Tomcat 6 and Resin) and multiple languages (including Java, Node.js, Ruby<br />
and multiple frameworks such <strong>as</strong> Spring and Play), and it provides a Cloud Foundry Eclipse<br />
plug-in <strong>for</strong> development. Its open-source-software-b<strong>as</strong>ed openness provides application<br />
portability, minimizes vendor lock-in and strongly promotes the open PaaS movement by itself.<br />
Cloud n PaaS offers a broad set of high-control services, including AWS-compatible APIs (<strong>for</strong><br />
example, autoscaling, monitoring, provisioning and multiple kinds of compute services). Cloud n<br />
PaaS supports multiple deployment scenarios (i.e., on-premises, hosted private, virtual private,<br />
public and hybrid cloud). By connecting Cloud n PaaS to <strong>Enterprise</strong> Cloud, its own private cloud<br />
(IaaS), via a VPN through an open network/closed network, a virtual private cloud is configured.<br />
Cloud n PaaS runs in NTT Communications' own data centers both in Japan and the U.S., with<br />
high availability (i.e., an SLA of 99.99%) and options to choose where customers' applications<br />
will run.<br />
NTT Communications plans to revamp its enabling application plat<strong>for</strong>m, starting with an<br />
upgrade to Pivotal Cloud Foundry v.2.0 or a newer-version-b<strong>as</strong>ed technology set, <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong><br />
adding multiple IaaS orchestration features.<br />
Customers report the high quality of NTT Communications' professional services resources in<br />
addressing customers' needs in a responsive manner.<br />
Cautions<br />
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The vendor's responsiveness to the aPaaS-enabling technology evolution is slower than its<br />
competitors (<strong>for</strong> example, it only recently upgraded to Cloud Foundry v.2.0 <strong>as</strong> its enabling<br />
plat<strong>for</strong>m, and does not support alternative container technologies, such <strong>as</strong> Docker).<br />
NTT Communications' Cloud n PaaS's focus is primarily on hosting or migrating on-premises<br />
applications to the cloud, not on new application development, and it lacks high-productivity<br />
development tools.<br />
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