Cloud Computing : IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
Today I am going to explain the comparison between the three Cloud computing models which people always wants to know. Cloud application services are now become very familiar to everyone and Enterprise networks are deploying in their infrastructure. Things are moving from the in-primise solution to the cloud and deployments are important part of the infrastructure.
You can't strict to one vendor, there are so many applications for which you will have to rely on the third party softwares for which the open APIs or the integration required must. We can deployed various cloud based services and these services are the fact of the today's enterprise and IT network infrastructure.
Let's talk about all these platforms which we are using as a service now a days and is very much popular. we will also talk about the need and the future milestone or roadmaps of these kinds of technology. So we have majorly 3 types of cloud computing services and they are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services.
SaaS-Software as a service
Saas stands for Software as a service, and is one of the most popular and the demanding service in the cloud market. SaaS uses the web to deliver applications that are managed by a third-party vendor and whose interface is accessed on the clients’ side. Most SaaS applications can be run directly from a web browser without any downloads or installations required, although some require plugins.
In order to provide the best services in web delivery model, SaaS actually eliminates the need of installation and applications on individual computers. With the help of SaaS service customer can have easy maintaince and support because everything can be managed by OEMs as they are fully driven by OEMS which includes applications, runtime, data, middleware, virtualization, servers, storage and networking.
The most widely used SaaS offering types include email and collaboration, customer relationship management, and healthcare-related applications. Some large enterprises that are not traditionally thought of as software vendors have started building SaaS as an additional source of revenue in order to gain a competitive advantage.
Examples of SaaS services : Google Apps, Salesforce, Citrix GoToMeeting, Cisco WebEx
Common SaaS Use-Case: Replaces traditional on-device software
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PaaS stands for Platform as a service and is widely used in now a days. PaaS are used for applications, development, when providing cloud components to software. Developers has used these as they gain with PaaS as a framework by which they can develop or customize applications.
PaaS makes the development, testing, and deployment of applications quick, simple, and cost-effective. With this technology, enterprise operations, or a third-party provider, can manage OSes, virtualization, servers, storage, networking, and the PaaS software itself. Developers however, manage the applications.
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Fig 1.1 - Cloud Computing PaaS
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Enterprise PaaS provides the best service to the enterprise software developers as a self-service portal for managing computing infrastructure from centralized IT operations and the platforms that are installed on top of the hardware. The enterprise PaaS can be delivered through a hybrid model that uses both public IaaS and on-premise infrastructure or as a pure private PaaS that only uses the latter.
IaaS- Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service. All those cloud infrastructure services actually known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and are self-service models for accessing, monitoring, and managing remote datacenter infrastructures, such as compute (virtualized or bare metal), storage, networking, and networking services (e.g. firewalls). You need to purchase hardware users can purchase IaaS based on consumption, similar to Mobile or electricity utility billing.
Compared to SaaS and Paas, SaaS users are responsible for managing applications, data, runtime, and middleware. Providers still manage virtualization, servers, hard drives, storage, and networking. Many IaaS providers now offer databases, messaging queues, and other services above the virtualization layer as well.
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Fig 1.2- Iaas, Paas and SaaS
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Some tech analysts draw a distinction here and use the IaaS+ moniker for these other options. What users gain with IaaS is infrastructure on top of which they can install any required platform. Users are responsible for updating these if new versions are released.
So you now understand these models, above diagram shows you the full services. Lets talk about the comparison between these models as shown in the below table.
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Fig 1.3- Comparison - SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
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