Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud services?
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The cloud computing market consists of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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Enomaly was among the first to develop a self service infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform (ECP) circa 2005.
Successful organizations of the future will be more outwardly focused, scanning the horizon for emerging SaaS (software as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) capabilities that can be a source of competitive advantage.
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Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.
Forbes: Ideas like the cloud and infrastructure as a service are all very abstract.
Cloud adoption is moving top down (SaaS applications) and bottoms up (Infrastructure as a service like Amazon).
Most consumers are likely to use public clouds, and Lenovo will provide infrastructure as a service, likely from Amazon.
And not that many offer integrated Infrastructure as a Service products.
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As said, currently Rackspace is a distant second in market share for Infrastructure As A Service, a business that will most likely see margins squeezed.
With the market giving a huge premium to cloud companies, this will be the year to float the undisputed leader in Infrastructure as a service.
The OpenStack project launched a little over a year ago and quickly forced most companies in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) area to move to open source models.
Rackspace holds the number two market share position in the Infrastructure As A Service piece according to 451Group, with 8.6% markets share (Amazon holds the number one position with 56%).
With all of these components, HP becomes the only firm that can supply end to end enterprise IT, including hardware and software, either on premises or under the Infrastructure as a Service model.
Start-ups create jobs to keep up with demand an example of this is Infrastructure as a Service start-up, Dyn, that boosted revenue 70% in 2012 while its headcount rose just as fast to 170.
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In the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO), a small group of agencies were allowed to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker.
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Along with established Infrastructure as a Service providers such as Amazon Web Services and RackSpace, IT vendors such as Microsoft and HP have been upping the ante, offering greater capacity and scalability to the enterprise market.
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The typical migration path for this cohort of apps is to first place them on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, which at first will typically be on-premise for control purposes, but can then be migrated to a hosted (private) or public cloud later.
Google also is expected to announce that it will launch a service allowing other companies to rent computer servers to store data and power their websites and internally used business applications, an offering known as Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS, people familiar with the matter said.
Analysys Mason's forecast, created as part of the Enterprise program, covers software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service.
Amazon should be viewed by investors as an infrastructure service provider, not just an e-retailer.
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To help level the playing field a bit more, NYSE Technologies new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering lets financial firms of any size place Virtual Machines directly on the same infrastructure as the exchange.
It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will account for 70% of revenue in 2010, while 30% will be related to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).
The Infrastructure-as-a-service with the best price, functionality, reliability, compliance and security will win.
These legacy competencies are simply not relevant in a world of virtualized business applications, ubiquitous personal devices and infrastructure-as-a-service.
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) leadership is going to determine the winner of the battle for dominance in the cloud.
Implementations of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) were comparatively rare among respondents.
The portfolio also includes Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) planned for launch in late 2012 and Sprint Complete Collaboration, a Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution launched earlier this year.
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