{"id":3452,"date":"2012-12-17T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2012-12-17T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:00:57","slug":"cloud-computing-vendors-battle-for-claim-to-the-strategic-1-percent-paas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-vendors-battle-for-claim-to-the-strategic-1-percent-paas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Vendors Battle for Claim to the Strategic 1 percent &#8212; PaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing is rapidly being adopted by companies of all sizes. \u00a0<a title=\"Gartner global cloud market\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=2163616\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner estimates<\/a> that the overall global cloud services market in 2012 to be $109 billion. \u00a0A very small piece, but rapidly growing, part of this market is Platform as a Service (PaaS). \u00a0 At just $1.2 billion in 2012, the PaaS market is only about 1 percent of the total cloud services market, but it is considered to be strategic and ultimately a growth driver for other segments like Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).<\/p>\n<p>While 79 percent of companies now use Software as a Service (SaaS), only about half of companies use Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology. \u00a0Gartner expects PaaS to reach $1.5 billion in 2013 and grow to $2.9 billion by 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yefim Natis bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/in\/yefimnatis\" target=\"_blank\">Yefim Natis<\/a>, distinguished analyst at Gartner,<a title=\"Yefim Natis quote on PaaS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=2242415\" target=\"_blank\"> said that<\/a> &#8220;All software mega-vendors are strategically investing in the PaaS market despite the relatively modest projected market revenue. \u00a0They expect their leadership to translate to large and effective ecosystems of partners, developers and solutions. \u00a0PaaS technologies are embedded in many other types of cloud services&#8230;the direct revenue in the PaaS market grossly underestimates the importance of this part of the cloud architecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fabrizio Biscotti bio\" href=\"uk.linkedin.com\/in\/biscotti\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Biscotti<\/a>, research director at Gartner, said that\u00a0&#8220;Of all the cloud technological aspects, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) are the most mature and established from a competitive landscape perspective, while PaaS is the least evolved. \u00a0For this reason, PaaS is where the battle between vendors and products is set to intensify the most. 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