{"id":4686,"date":"2012-11-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/20\/iaas-paas-and-saas-clouds-continue-to-evolve\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:30:00","slug":"iaas-paas-and-saas-clouds-continue-to-evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/iaas-paas-and-saas-clouds-continue-to-evolve\/","title":{"rendered":"IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS clouds continue to evolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Ovum Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing is an increasingly multi-faceted phenomenon. It continues to quickly evolve not just at private and public cloud levels (and increasingly in the continuum between these two extremes) but also at infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) levels.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ovum report, <em>2013 Trends to Watch: Private and Public Clouds<\/em>, Ovum advises that cloud service providers and consumers need to take into account the latest IaaS developments at network level, get their head around the PaaS market, and understand how &ndash; and to what extent &ndash; SaaS is evolving into business process-as-a-service (BPaaS).<\/p>\n<h3>IaaS is more competitive but bleeding edge at network level<\/h3>\n<p>The IaaS market has so far been dominated by VMware and AWS. Ovum expects Microsoft and Google to increasingly make a dent into this domination.<\/p>\n<p>For all players, the network is the next IaaS frontier: increasingly important, but a growing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Ovum Software<br \/>\nCloud computing is an increasingly multi-faceted phenomenon. It continues to quickly evolve not just at private and public cloud levels (and increasingly in the continuum between these two extremes) but &#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-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","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=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}