{"id":4661,"date":"2012-11-19T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/nov\/19\/gartner-paas-market-hit-billions-globally\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T11:20:00","slug":"gartner-paas-market-to-hit-the-billions-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-paas-market-to-hit-the-billions-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: PaaS market to hit the billions globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of research data from analyst house Gartner reveals that worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is on target to hit $1.2bn (&pound;754m) by the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This figure represents an increase from $900m (&pound;565m) from the previous year, and integrates various sub-aspects of the PaaS infrastructure, such as aPaas (application platforms as a service) and iPaas (integration platforms as a service).<\/p>\n<p>Following the prediction through fully, Gartner believes the platform as a service market will hit $2.9bn (&pound;1.8bn) by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This news appears to confound research last week from Symform detailing the struggle of PaaS compared to the more mature cloud markets of IaaS and SaaS.<\/p>\n<p>The key cornerstone of the Symform report was that 79% of companies surveyed used SaaS, yet 48% had no plans to utilise PaaS in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no real surprise that SaaS continues &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of research data from analyst house Gartner reveals that worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is on target to hit $1.2bn (&pound;754m) by the end of 2012.<br \/>\nThis figure represents an increase from $900m (&pound;565m) from the p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}