In this posting, I summarize my prior three posts on the three cloud computing offerings: Infrastructure as a Service (), Platform as a Service () and Software as a Service ().
I concentrate how the three offerings differ with respect to
flexibility, maintenance and portability. One of the greatest challenges
companies face when moving to the cloud is security. Thus I will devote
an entire blog post in the future, to security concerns.
Flexibility
- How much flexibility do you have with each offering?
- What can you change or modify within each cloud offering to suit your needs?
- Can you modify the software, the look-and-feel, the branding, the hardware even the source code with each cloud offering?
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Maintenance
- How much do you need to maintain with each cloud offering?
- Do you need to hire programmers, data analysts, system administrators or just application users to use each cloud offering?
- Can you modify the software, the look-and-feel, the branding, the hardware even the source code with each cloud offering?
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Portability
- If your application is hosted at
either an IaaS, PaaS or SaaS provider, what are your options if you need
to transfer your application and data to another provider?
- In what format will your data be provided to you?
- How easily can you download or extract your data and in what format will it be provided to you?
![Portability]()
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