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Platform as a Service

Platform as a Service or PaaS is a model where a third party provides and manages the platform on which you install and manage your own software to customers.

Third party provides you:

• runtime
• middleware
• operating system
• virtualisation
• servers
• storage
• network

You provide:

• applications
• data

Pipe Ten works closely with its customers to provide a level of stack-management appropriate to the need, this starts with IaaS and extends to PaaS and can include SaaS.