Cloud Computing Takes Off With SaaS
February 10, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Andrew Froehlich.
In 2013, enterprise organizations spent a great deal of time offloading servers into infrastructure-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service models. Software-as-a-service was just as popular, but you can look for the software-centric cloud to thrive as companies hand over more of the IT management reins.
IaaS and PaaS gained popularity primarily because they allowed organizations to test cloud providers without giving up complete control over managing applications. IT decision makers often pushed brand-new applications and services into a SaaS model, but they were hesitant to offload the full management of highly customized and mission-critical software in production. As a compromise, they experimented with IaaS and PaaS to offload infrastructure to a third party while allowing application-level management by in-house IT staff…
For many of us, 2013 proved that cloud computing was not only cost effective, but also reliable and flexible. Enterprise cloud adoption rates are staggering. Because of continued growth and customer confidence, cloud providers are hoping to transfer additional infrastructure services to the cloud while converting IaaS and PaaS customers into SaaS customers. And for enterprises that may cut IT budgets for the year, investigating cloud services is a logical place to start — though there are a couple caveats…
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