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Cloud Computing Vendor Map
I have created a Cloud Computing Vendor Map imposed on service models to understand the vendor offerings in the Cloud Computing space. It is primarily based on Peter Laird’s Cloud Computing Taxonomy. It is a big list, so please click on the image to see the original sized image. SaaS will be a huge list and I haven’t included all the vendors there.
Do let me know if you want to see any additional products / services or if anything is classified wrong.
Original taxonomy from Peter Laid – Peter Laird’s Cloud Computing Taxonomy
Cloud Service Models
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS).
What the consumer can do?
ü Use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure.
ü Limited user-specific application configuration settings
What the consumer cannot do?
û Manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure like
§ network,
§ servers,
§ storage
û Install consumer-created or acquired business applications, application servers operating systems, or other software
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS).
What the consumer can do?
ü Install consumer-created or acquired business applications developed using provider platform
ü Limited application hosting environment configurations
What the consumer cannot do?
û Manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure like
§ network,
§ servers,
§ storage
û Install consumer-created or acquired application servers, operating systems, or software developed using other platforms which are not supported by the provider.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
What the consumer can do?
ü Install consumer-created or acquired business applications developed using any development platform, application servers, operating systems
ü Application hosting environment configurations
ü Manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure like
§ limited control of select networking components (e.g., host firewalls),
§ servers,
§ storage
What the consumer cannot do?
û manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure
Application Platform as a Service (APaaS)
APaaS is flavor of PaaS. In particular if we think of PaaS as middleware services like the Application Server as Service (e.g. Web Role / Worker Role of Microsoft) APaaS is an Higher level of abstraction, Yefim Natis of Gartner calls it as the Extended Application Server.
In particular it is like using Business Application Framework instead of the plain PaaS offering. In the Enterprise development space it’s like using vanilla .NET Framework for developing Business Applications vs. using xRM (CRM as a Platform to develop LOB Applications) or SharePoint as a Development platform.
APaaS is the same Application Platform / Business Application Framework concept extended to the cloud. If the Application Platform is available as a Service it is called APaaS whereas if it licensed as Product for use in Public / Private clouds it is called a Cloud Enabled Application Platform (CEAP) / SaaS Enabled Application Platform (SEAP). Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos call this Framework as a Service instead in ‘The Cloud at your Service’
Examples of APaaS include Force.com, LongJump, Examples of CEAP/SEAP include expanzPlatform, Apprenda SaaSGrid
Further Application Platforms can be classified based on who is the target audience, the Biz User or the Developer.
Information summarized from:
NIST Definition of Cloud Computing v15
Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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