Short for Platform as aService, PaaS is defined as a computing platform being
delivered as a service. Here the platform is outsourced in place of a
company or data center purchasing and managing their own hardware and software
layers. Typically, PaaS facilitates deployment of applications, application
development, testing, and also supports the building, testing and hosting of Web
applications. PaaS enables IT to develop, test, deploy, host, and also update
from a single streamlined environment. May also be referred to as cloudware.
Sun Microsystems identifies Platform as a Service (PaaS)as one of three layers of
cloud computing, in addition to Software as a
Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
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