The New World of Infrastructure Apps

DAM News Staff

14 years ago

Just 10 years ago, deploying applications involved assembling the entire food chain down to the physical hardware. The process was lengthy, expensive, and complex. While product choices existed, infrastructure deployment was a requirement, not an option.

Fast forward to today’s cloud era. Deploying applications no longer mandates a soup-to-nuts approach from hardware infrastructure on up. Rather, applications can be created and assembled atop a variety of infrastructure services that, due to the availability of cloud computing, are consumed more like applications themselves. I call them infrastructure apps.

Unlike Infrastructure-as-a-Service, which focuses on virtual compute cycles and storage capacity as examples, infrastructure apps enable companies to build new end-user facing applications without having to do all of the heavy lifting.

Continues @http://cloud.gigaom.com/2010/08/21/the-new-world-of-infrastructure-apps/

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