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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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.

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Implementations of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) were comparatively rare among respondents.

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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.

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Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.

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