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Cloud Computing and SaaSCloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
I was asked the other day is Cloud Computing like SaaS? Well I thought I would share the response for anyone else that night be interested in my opinion.
SaaS is about delivering a single application, normally this application has been written to be very scalable and a single application instance can serve many many customers. Almost exclusively these applications are Web 2.0 applications delivered to the end user in a browser from the Internet or Cloud.
A good example of this is SalesForce.com a well know CRM application.
The similarities between SaaS and Cloud Computing are the fact that the client is buying a service which normally consists of the applications an amount of storage space and a Service Level Agreement provided by a service provider. With both the solutions you normally get an elastic infrastructure 10 people 1 month 100 the next without the typical infrastructure considerations
Cloud Computing is however more about providing a completely integrated IT solution a mix of Web 2.0, and traditional applications including Office and hosted voice all within a hosted desktop.
So I would say the differences are:
Cloud Computing is capable of delivering an integrated IT solution comprising of all your applications rather than a single application.
Cloud Computing is about running your IT as a service with predictable costs and a quantifiable Service Level Agreement.
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About Robin
Having spend 15 years in IT providing infrastructure solutions to Enterprise and Blue chips I was looking for a new challenge.
My last role I spent 4 and a half years working a Sales Director for a Times Tech Tack 100 company helping Enterprises building their own cloud environments. I helped those companies save considerable money by centralising applications into private cloud based data centres using storage and servers virtualisation technology.
I recognised benefits of application centralisation could have on companies bottom line as well as system stability, reliability and flexibility gained by consolidating regional offices within a cloud based enterprise class framework.
The development of grid computing enabled applications to be provided instant performance rather than the traditional server migrations to a larger server. At the same time applications were becoming more able to be deployed in a multi tenanted environment breeding SaaS (Software as a Service).
The last piece of this puzzle was server virtualisation which matured to provide the ability for service providers to build Enterprise class platforms designed ground up for multitenanted use. At last this provided the ability for SME's to rent a slice of an enterprise class infrastructure to run there applications for an SME price tag.
Gone where the 3 to 4 year expensive upgrade cycles and high running costs. My prediction is that over 90% of SME's will run their applications in the cloud within the next 7 years.
I was so convinced by this that in June 2008 I decided to establish Cloud Computing Ltd.
