PaaS provides an environment in which software developers can easily build, manage, deploy, and scale the applications they build. Examples of early PaaS offerings include Salesforce.com's Force.com and Google's AppEngine. A PaaS need not operate using IaaS (neither Force.com nor AppEngine do so), although many newer services run on the Amazon IaaS service (known as EC2), and the Standing Cloud PaaS can run on virtually any public IaaS.

Standing Cloud and Flexiant partner to simplify European cloud application deployment

June 29, 2011: Standing Cloud, Inc. a leader in the emerging Platform as a Service (PaaS) marketplace, and Flexiant, a UK-based cloud infrastructure software and services provider - and Europe’s original public cloud provider - have announced a partnership that brings a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users.

Standing Cloud makes it simple to deploy, configure, and manage applications in the Cloud.

For business users, finding and using popular web applications applications like Wordpress, Drupal, Sugar CRM, and many more, is just a few clicks away, no system administration required. For more technical users — like application developers and firms that customize popular CMS, CRM, and other software to create solutions for clients — Standing Cloud streamlines system administration and management, but without the limitations of other Platform as a Service (PaaS) systems.

PaaS provides an environment in which software developers can easily build, manage, deploy, and scale the applications they build. Examples of early PaaS offerings include Salesforce.com's Force.com and Google's AppEngine. A PaaS need not operate using IaaS (neither Force.com nor AppEngine do so), although many newer services run on the Amazon IaaS service (known as EC2), and the Standing Cloud PaaS can run on virtually any public IaaS.

Vertical PaaS systems, built to support developers and specialists in single language/stacks and applications (aPaaS), generally make sense if you work exclusively in one of those specialities. But if you work in more varied ways — in multiple languages, and/or you customize apps in several categories for clients — you may find them restrictive. And importantly, in almost every case, you’re restricted to a single cloud (usually Amazon) for deployment. That adds risk to your application’s performance and reliability, and likely inflates your costs.

In several ways. Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) system makes it easy to setup and maintain a cloud application development environment, in the language of your choice, without any hardware overhead or time investment. By syncing your code repo to our platform, your development process is streamlined. And when you’re ready to deploy, either for your own use or live on the cloud, it’s a matter of a few clicks.

Our Develop Applications section tells the whole story. Take a look.

For experts in popular open source and commercial applications like Wordpress, Drupal, SugarCRM, and many more, a full discussion of Standing Cloud's benefits are listed on the Customize Applications page. But here's the punchline: we relieve you of the time-consuming tasks for system administration, so you can get back to what you do best: helping clients solve their business challenges.