Cloud Computing Taxonomy Map | Matias Woloski

Cloud Computing Taxonomy Map

Published by Matias Woloski on August 19th, 2008 10:13 pm under Cloud Computing, SaaS, Taxonomy
2 Comments

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)
2 Comments:
1. Shawn said on February 11, 2009:
  
  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.
2. Every Silver Lining has a Cloud… « PBBI Stratus said on February 8, 2010:
  
  [...] business benefits of SaaS. I highly recommend you download and read it. Perhaps moving on from that Matias Woloski published a great taxonomy for all thing SaaS related. Although initially daunting number of terms, it does [...]
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