Cloud Computing Cloud Services
Cloud Services There are 5 commonly used categories in a spectrum of cloud offerings Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) -Provision H/W, OS, Framework, Database Software-as-a-service (SaaS) - Provision H/W, OS, Special purpose S/W Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) - Provision H/W and organization has control over OS Storage-as-a-service (SaaS) - Provision of DB-like services, metered like - per gigabyte/month Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) - Provision of a Desktop environment within a browser Platform as a service PaaS stands for the platform as a service. PaaS provides a computing platform with a programming language execution environment. PaaS provides a development and deployment platform for running applications in the cloud. PaaS constitute the middleware on top of which applications are built. Application management is the core functionality of the middleware. PaaS provides run-time environments for the applications. PaaS provides Applications deployment Configuring application co