Types of Cloud Services

Types of Cloud Services

IaaS:{Infrastructure as a Service}

• IaaS is moving from lower-risk pilot programs and into production environments.
• Organisation's stated plans to adopt IaaS in the near future reinforce the importance of IaaS in an overall portfolio of infrastructure service offerings.

PaaS:{Platform as a Service}

• Platform as a service {PaaS}adoption clearly indicates the growing strategic importance of public cloud services for organisations that are adopting cloud infrastructure to support their business needs.
• Current and anticipated adoption rates of PaaS are leading indicators of a more substantive move to cloud environments and represent an opportunity for service providers to deliver PaaS-oriented solutions to help their clients make this move.

SaaS:{Software as a Service}

• Software as serivce {SaaS}adoption,particularly in large enterprise application suites, will continue to reduce the total potential market available for application outsourcing.
• SaaS adoption in the near term offers consulting and implementation services opportunities for IT services providers, as well as ongoing integration and configuration.
• The move to SaaS will help drive additional revenue to the application outsourcing market by drawing applications to external,cloud-based implementations where they would otherwise be considered only for internal depolyment.