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Any complex organization wants to move faster, increase efficiency and lower its costs. That's never been easy. There are too many moving parts -- spread across layers of heterogeneous, hybrid IT -- and too much inadequate expertise to accomplish everything. It's no wonder that the get-to-the-cloud message, with its push-button, pay-someone-else-to-manage-it vision has finally penetrated almost every organization. With the cloud-first mantra these days, the CIO might as well be thought of as the cloud information officer. However, in today's highly internetworked, hybrid world, IaaS is no longer the big cloud opportunity. Where IT can help the business gain real competitive advantage is now up the stack with some form of PaaS model, such as high-productivity application PaaS. To be competitive, companies want to build and deploy new applications quickly. PaaS promises to enable developers to build better apps and deploy them faster without IT infrastructure friction, thereby unleashing pent-up productivity. Switching to PaaS, ...