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(Spanish) Video Interview on Cloud and PaaS for Entrepreneurs with OpenShift by Red Hat

EmprendedoresWeb.tv es un excelente videoblog sobre tendencias y novedades para start-ups en el campo de la alta tecnologia.

De manera similar pero mas amplia que en este reportaje grafico, en esta nota tuve la oportunidad de brindar mis perspectivas acerca de como la nube o cloud computing esta cambiando la forma de hacer y de empezar negocios online. Concretamente, estuve explicando como Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) o el Servicio de Plataforma se esta convirtiendo en una herramienta mas que necesaria para nuevos emprendimientos.

Para resumir mi vision a futuro del mercado de Cloud, creo que a partir de ahora, emprendimientos web que no esten basados en un servicio de PaaS como OpenShift de Red Hat no van a poder competir en tiempo y forma con start-ups que se muevan de manera agil explotando las ventajas de calidad y velocidad que ofrece el modelo PaaS. Alquilar y mantener servidores virtuales remotos y su software stack no es el negocio del desarrollador de aplicaciones y es demasiado caro para que una start-up se de el lujo de hacerlo.

Con un servicio cloud del tipo PaaS, el desarrollador se olvida de la plataforma, de los servidores y de su administracion para concentrarse en el codigo de su aplicacion. El stack, las bases de datos, y los servicios son provistos y mantenidos por el proveedor PaaS. Es decir, con Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) como Amazon EC2 nos olvidamos de comprar servidores, pero hay que seguir administrandolos; con PaaS, en cambio, nos olvidamos de los servidores, de la plataforma y de todo lo demas, solo concentramos nuestros recursos en lo importante: nuestra aplicacion.
Para saber mas acerca de como OpenShift va ir implementando parte de mi vision futura de la evolucion gradual de PaaS y el Cloud pueden visitar el Roadmap de OpenShift.com.

Lo mejor de todo es que en el caso de OpenShift el desarrollador usuario de la PaaS desarolla como siempre desde de su IDE o linea de comando en forma totalmente gratis. Solo comienza a pagar si desea que su aplicacion pueda escalar para responder al crecimiento del trafico de usuarios, y solo paga por hora por los picos de demanda, lo que lo hace extremadamente economico. Para saber mas acerca de como Cloud y PaaS estan cambiando la forma de operar de los emprendedores pueden visitar este y este blog post en ingles.



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