The Index of PaaS Activity (IPA) went all A-Rod on us in the past month 'roiding up nearly 20% since June to 119.8. Nothing artificial about this growth: news headlines, social media mentions, and job postings all soared - up 6.5%, 18.1%, and 41% respectively. Driving the increases were IBM's support for Cloud Foundry, the CloudBees acquisition of FoxWeave, and increased analyst focus on emerging PaaS trends (summarized nicely here).With PaaS consolidation via M&A continuing to drive awareness and with PaaS dominating agendas at every CIO confab, expect IPA's northward romp to continue.