Integration as a Service provider Hubspan partnered with IBM to offer integration platform as a service called Webspan. “WebSpan provides any-to-any integration, which means it works with all systems, protocols, content and applications, whether legacy, on-premise or SaaS-based. WebSpan enables companies to create affordable business community networks and to automate business processes.”
Writing applications using Java on Google App Engine provides portability than when developed using Python. While Google App Engine (GAE) uses Google’s magic infrastructure, however, limits the portability if the application uses the Bigtable data store. In Java this tight coupling to the Bigtable data store can be alleviated by making your application use JDO [...]
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a hosted application stack that can be used to build and deploy a web application with no servers to configure or administer.
PaaS changes the economics of application development and delivery by drastically reducing the development costs while simultaneously providing scalability, high availability and reduced maintenance. Some examples of PaaS [...]