savas parastatidis

Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

I was wondering whether the community out there could help me. If you don’t know the answer, please blog about it and point people here so we can find the answer, if there is one…

Few months ago I read in Robert‘s blog about the distinction he made between “Infrastructure as a Service”, “Platform as a Service”, and “Software as a Service” when talking about the Cloud Computing continuum. I am writing two articles on Cloud Computing and I’d like to find out whether there was a prior use of those terms in the same context before Robert‘s entry. I am not aware of any others and Robert didn’t know of any prior references. Do you?

Please leave a comment here or just email me at savas@parastatidis.name.

2 responses to “Help! please… Cloud Computing and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS”

  1. mike lorengo

    Hi Savas,

    Dion Hinchcliffe compared Paas & Saas here..http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=166

    Here is list of Cloud Computing links that may contain other references, but I’ll let you do the looking… http://cloudfeed.net/2008/08/24/private-cloud-links/

    -=mike

  2. Florian Rosenberg

    Dear Savas,

    I have one more to add: CaaS – Composition as a Service ;). We have used it in one of our recent workshop papers, where we describe a SOA runtime that enables such a composition as a service. The paper will be available soon on my Web page. But we don’t see it in relation to cloud computing….

    -Florian