Comments on: Is SaaS the key to cloud revenues? http://gigaom.com/2011/06/20/is-saas-the-key-to-cloud-revenues/ Sat, 25 May 2013 06:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nandavarapu Kiran http://gigaom.com/2011/06/20/is-saas-the-key-to-cloud-revenues/#comment-632943 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:55:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=364448#comment-632943 Hi Derrick,

IDC definition is similar to NIST definitions and SaaS doesn’t include PaaS offerings nor IaaS offerings. SaaS ideally is applications as a service, PaaS is Application development and Deployment as a service and IaaS includes System Infrastructure software, Storage hardware and servers…

But the whole confusion lies here. IDC never provided numbers by SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, but by Applications, Application development and deployment and System infrastructure. In their new report, they said SaaS cover 75% of market. In this case, Software includes development tools, deployment tools, databases, storage software, management software, OS etc..

For our convenience and clarity, we can consider Applications part as SaaS, Application development and deployment as PaaS and System infrastructure software including storage and servers as IaaS.

With these considerations, as per their old predictions, IaaS is bigger than SaaS and PaaS is almost half of SaaS by 2014.

]]> By: Thomas Oppong http://gigaom.com/2011/06/20/is-saas-the-key-to-cloud-revenues/#comment-632657 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:58:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=364448#comment-632657 Businesses are gradually accepting what SaaS and PaaS can offer.Data security is still an issue but the confidence in the cloud will continue hence the surge in the usage of cloud apps.Salesforce has done a good job and now all the giant tech companies are joining the cloud service delivery. What companies will require is data security apps to protect their data.

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