The name of the base system (platform): | Apache |
Developers: | Dell |
Date of the premiere of the system: | 2012 |
Branches: | Internet services, Information technologies |
Technology: | PaaS - Platform As A Service - the Business platform as service |
Dell announced the developed new platform as a cloud service. The project received the name Project Fast Paas. On December 16, 2012 reported about it to TechCrunch.
Fast PaaS is developed by the cloud division of Dell Dell Cloud Labs working on the projects Sputniok, Linux, Crowbar.
According to representatives of Dell, now time of fast development of technologies when clients want to have access to the most perfect product. Fast PaaS a striking example of innovation of Dell in development of unique strategy and solutions. At the same time, the company does not go the way Amazon which offers only virtual machines. Dell develop solutions based on cloud computing.
The Fast PaaS project is constructed on Cloud Foundry, open source. PaaS is developed originally by VMware and now works within the license Apache.
Fast PaaS is the solution for a private cloud. The developer fills only some forms which include a programming language, the amount of memory, the database for connection to the application.
According to the senior manager on products Al Kontsel, the solution can be synchronized with the mobile phone and further to manage Fast PaaS through a portable device.
The solution Fast PaaS is intended first of all for the companies providing services with high value added, for example services of billing or identification. At the same time, Dell expects that clients will use not one module from a line, and to purchase the whole service package at one company.
Development of a cloud platform is entered in the development strategy of the company as provider of cloud services, making use at the same time of all acquired experience of Dell in other areas.
About service cost, and also terms of start it is not announced.