Platform-as-a-Service market to see sharp growth according to Gartner Research
November 20, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Chris Kanaracus.
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to $1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones, according analyst firm Gartner. PaaS spending will rise to $1.5 billion in 2013, while reaching $2.9 billion by 2016, Gartner said Monday.
The firm includes both broader PaaS products such as Salesforce.com’s Force.com, as well as discrete application infrastructure components, such as databases, messaging and "other functional types of middleware offered as a cloud service," Gartner said…
IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offerings like Amazon Web Services and packaged SaaS (software as a service) applications are much more mature than PaaS, research director Fabrizio Biscotti said in a statement. "For this reason, PaaS is where the battle between vendors and products is set to intensify the most." PaaS is being mostly adopted so far by users in "mature economies," with the U.S. alone taking up 42 percent of the total market, according to Gartner…
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