{"id":445,"date":"2007-11-29T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2007-11-29T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:00:54","slug":"saas-so-many-ways-to-deliver-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-so-many-ways-to-deliver-it\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS: So Many Ways to Deliver IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed.\u00a0 Mainframes gave way to Client\/Server, only to give way to the Internet.\u00a0 But the delivery vehicle for IT services is being reshaped into so many different forms lately, it is hard to keep up.\u00a0 The traditional software life-cycle of an organization: purchasing, installing on-site, configuring, tuning, managing, retiring is being turned on its head.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner has <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gartner 14 IT delivery mechanisms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/DisplayDocument?id=529509&#038;ref=g_SiteLink.\">identified <\/a>14 different IT delivery mechanisms that they expect will make a sizable impact on the traditional life-cycle approach over the next five years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Process Utilities<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure Utilities<\/li>\n<li>Storage as a Service<\/li>\n<li>Grid Computing<\/li>\n<li>Communications as a Service<\/li>\n<li>Utility Computing<\/li>\n<li>Capacity on Demand<\/li>\n<li>Remote Management Services<\/li>\n<li>SaaS<\/li>\n<li>Web Platforms<\/li>\n<li>Community Source<\/li>\n<li>Software Streaming<\/li>\n<li>Software-based &#8216;Appliances&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>User-owned Devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some analysts have called the report &#8220;nonsense&#8221; and overblown hype, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hype of IT predictions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/gb\/inquirer\/news\/2007\/10\/30\/report-states-bleedin-obvious\">comparing <\/a>the predictions to those of how the ASP market would reshape IT.\u00a0 And there is certainly some amount of truth to 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