Forget about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – it’s all about the platform
March 17, 2015
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
The cloud computing market is typically broken into three buckets: IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) represents on-demand compute and storage; Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors host applications in the cloud; and Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud-based application development platform.
But a recent Forrester’s Wave report throws those buckets out the window. “The popular wisdom that cloud computing comes in three flavors — SaaS, IaaS and PaaS — no longer describes reality,” say some of Forrester’s top cloud analysts, including John Rymer and James Staten (Staten now works at Microsoft)…
“We find that vendors are blurring the lines between the three cloud-computing categories as they seek to create public cloud platforms that can satisfy the needs of enterprises and widen their appeal to developers.”…
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