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THE STORY OF CLOUD COMPUTING – SAAS, IAAS AND PAAS

Cloud technology has been the hottest discussion topic. With its huge success over the years, from being a good choice for your business, it has become necessity for enterprises in many cases. Though even now there are some doubts among various entrepreneurs about the real meaning of cloud technology, today we will focus on the success story of the three major classifications of the cloud computing. Those three classes are:

  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

SaaS is the oldest one among the three. There are many instances of successful utliziation of SaaS in business enviroment. This cloud technology is the host which offers data storage, software infrastructure and user interface. You are able to access the data from anywhere via a web browser.The multi-tenants apps (software architecture where a single instance of software serves multiple tenants and runs on a server) are used by various organizations. These organizations can configure and frequently exploit the add-ins via APIs. The upgradation of these apps is done by their developing company. SaaS is undoubtedly the best option for horizontal applications like payroll processing, messaging, management software and customer support.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

In IaaS, it offers configurable virtual storage and you pay for the storage capacity it uses. The capacity of this service is flexible according to your need.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PaaS has a platform which allows the users to develop software application by tools offered by the organizations. As this is the newest of the three classes, PaaS is still developing and the concept is appealing to plenty of folks, ensuring a bright future ahead for the technology.

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