Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
Google is taking on Microsoft with its cloud-based computing-as-a-service.
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As a cloud computing service, Joyent manages things like server infrastructure and bandwidth needs for its customers.
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As computing becomes a utility type service, cloud providers will be extensively more capable than any local staff.
With more computing moving to these software as a service models, companies no longer need to manage complex desktop PC environments.
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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Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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As a unique government-managed cloud computing service, G2G Cloud Solutions has no precedent.
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Major software companies, including Oracle, IBM, Google and even Amazon.com, are all beginning to offer their own forms of utility computing applications, such as software-as-a-service and rented storage and processing power.
Hadoop is rising to prominence in an era of ubiquitous cloud computing and proven models for Software-as-a-Service, which dilute the power of some of the traditional models for commercializing open source.
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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At the time, many companies used software as a service (SaaS), but cloud computing had yet to enter into public consciousness.
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If you want to capture the cloud sweet spot look to invest in Software as a Service companies as this segment of cloud computing is the most mature, according to our Tech Radar research (look for an update to this analysis in the fall) and thus seeing the strongest enterprise adoption.
Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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Pure cloud computing players like Salesforce.com have an advantage over SAP as it can benefit from the expected growth of software as a service (SaaS) market.
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