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Types of Cloud Computing: Saas (Software As A Service)

Cloud computing can be categorized into three main types: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. SaaS provides applications through a web browser rather than local installation, with no code running on the user's computer. PaaS delivers virtualized servers to develop and run applications without maintaining the underlying infrastructure. IaaS provides on-demand virtual servers, networks, storage, and systems software that customers configure and manage themselves, replacing the functions of an entire data center.

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Types of Cloud Computing: Saas (Software As A Service)

Cloud computing can be categorized into three main types: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. SaaS provides applications through a web browser rather than local installation, with no code running on the user's computer. PaaS delivers virtualized servers to develop and run applications without maintaining the underlying infrastructure. IaaS provides on-demand virtual servers, networks, storage, and systems software that customers configure and manage themselves, replacing the functions of an entire data center.

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Cloud Computing: A Brief Introduction

Types of Cloud Computing


SaaS (Software As A Service) Is the most widely known and widely used form of cloud computing. It provides all the functions of a sophisticated traditional application to many customers and often thousands of users, but through a Web browser, not a locally -installed application. Little or no code is running on the Users local computer and the applications are usually tailored to fulfill specific functions. SaaS eliminates customer worries about application servers, storage, application development and related, common concerns of IT. Highest-profile examples are Salesforce.com, Google's Gmail and Apps, instant messaging from AOL, Yahoo and Google, and VoIP from Vonage and Skype. PaaS (Platform as a Service) Delivers virtualized servers on which customers can run existing applications or develop new ones without having to worry about maintaining the operating systems, server hardware, load balancing or computing capacity. These vendors provide APIs or development platforms to create and run applications in the cloud e.g. using the Internet. Managed Service providers with application services provided to IT departments to monitor systems and downstream applications such as virus scanning for e-mail are frequently included in this category. Well known providers would include Microsoft's Azure, Salesforce's Force.com, Google Maps, ADP Payroll processing, and US Postal Service offerings. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Delivers utility computing capability, typically as raw virtual servers, on demand that customers configure and manage. Here Cloud Computing provides grids or clusters or virtualized servers, networks, storage and systems software, usually (but not always) in a multitenant architecture. IaaS is designed to augment or replace the functions of an entire data center. This saves cost (time and expense) of capital equipment deployment but does not reduce cost of configuration, integration or management and these tasks must be performed remotely. Vendors would include Amazon.com (Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and Simple Storage), IBM and other traditional IT vendors.

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