{"id":2696,"date":"2012-01-12T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2012-01-12T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:00:23","slug":"cloud-computing-iaas-offers-few-cost-savings-but-provides-greater-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-iaas-offers-few-cost-savings-but-provides-greater-agility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: IaaS Offers Few Cost Savings, but Provides Greater Agility"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Cloud [computing] has three technological aspects<\/a> — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and finally software-as-a-service (SaaS),” says\u00a0Fabrizio Biscotti<\/a>, research director at analyst firm Gartner.<\/p>\n

Gartner\u00a0calls Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) the “computing” part of “cloud computing<\/a>,” and considers it the most\u00a0basic and fundamental form<\/a> of cloud computing service. \u00a0Currently there is no “one size fits all” IaaS<\/a>, and no single provider successfully addresses all segments of the market. The IaaS market is poised for strong growth with worldwide IaaS is expected to grow from $3.7 billion in 2011 to $10.5 billion in 2014. \u00a0NetworkWorld notes<\/a> that “Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) has more than 30 major players, both pure-play outfits that provide pay as you go, on-demand compute services, and those rising into the cloud from the traditional managed services realm.”<\/p>\n

Lydia Leong<\/a>, research Vice President at Gartner, recently issued Gartner’s first IaaS Magic Quadrant report<\/a> for IaaS and also blogged about her findings<\/a>. \u00a0Some of the findings of the IaaS report include:<\/p>\n