Cloud Computing Taxonomy Map
August 19th, 2008
Lately the term SaaS became a broader term and now it is called Cloud Computing (see David Chappell’s paper and Wikipedia). It includes the whole paradigm of utility computing + saas + platform as a service + * as a service.
I’ve got good feedback on the taxonomy map from the blogsphere (including Jeff Kaplan, from THINK IT Services). I updated the map some time ago but didn’t have time to publish. So here it is rather sooner than later. (I need Pablo’s help to do the animated GIF, so this time is static)
February 11th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Cloud computing is SaaS but as this site points out, another good term for it could be “infrastructure as a service” as a definition to the cloud: http://www.itstrategists.com/Cloud-Computing.aspx.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:27 am
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