Several different flavors have sprung up in cloud computing and each has their pros and cons. Add to these the plethora of vendor-created acronyms and it can be confusing to figure out the best option ...

There are so many "as a service" acronyms these days that you can"t even keep up with them. Heck, at VMworld there was a "Party as a Service" (great party, by the way; you all should attend).

Azure is moving down the stack. It was originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool, which is more of less a full stack to run your apps -- just one level below Software as a Service (SaaS). Most ...

Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud market are treated equally. As of 2025, software as a service (SaaS) continues to ...

I’m often asked whether a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup, is better off contracting for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services. However, that question begs ...

Commentary - Cloud Computing has the entire IT industry buzzing, with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Google, and others investing billions of dollars in this new form of computing in ...

At the start of this year, Computing carried out an extensive research programme on cloud Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service for our new Delta market analysis tool. This included a focus group, ...

As mentioned earlier in this series, Oracle (ORCL) posted 3% revenue growth of $9.59 billion in 2Q15, due to growth in its Platform-as-a-service (or PaaS) and the Infrastructure-as-a-service (or IaaS) ...

Azure is moving down the stack. Originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool which is more or less a full stack to run your apps, just one level below Software as a Service (SaaS). Most companies ...