Analysys Mason's forecast, created as part of the Enterprise program, covers software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service.
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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Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
Example: Amazon Web Services, the established leader in infrastructure-as-a-service.
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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.
According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.
Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
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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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.
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