2011, Year of PaaS

2011 Will Be the Year of Platform as a Service. In a report which examines key issues facing the PaaS marketplace, market intelligence firm Gartner Inc concludes that 2011 will be THE year of PAAS, and we agree with them. All the leading enterprise software vendors, plus large cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) [...]

What is Saas, Paas, Iaas, …. ? Understanding Cloud Computing Lingo

This article defines SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other such Cloud Computing terms. While the markets seems saturated with sassy SAAS and PAAS definitions already, perhaps the myriad of slightly differently slanted definitions is making the concept a bit cloudy. As I showed in a cloud computing diagram in an article last week about vendors, there [...]