Cloud Computing Systems Provide IT Efficiency -- Capacity on Demand

Cloud Computing Stack Layers – IaaS PaaS, SaaS Market Strategies, Shares, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016

$3500 - Single Copy or $7000 - Web Posting | Report # SH24381513 | 737 Pages | 206 Tables and Figures | 2010

Cloud Computing Systems Provide IT Efficiency -- Capacity on Demand

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Cloud Computing Stack Layers – IaaS PaaS, SaaS Market Strategies, Shares, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016

WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on: Cloud Stack Layers - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016.

IBM is the market leader in SOA Platform as a Service (PaaS) with 73% market share. Oracle / BEA /Sun participate in the market with 6% share, Microsoft with 5% share in 2009.

Applications and infrastructure markets come together to make information technology delivery a utility. On demand systems scale to meet the needs of users and users only pay for the capacity they use. Strategies relate to different ways to position software, hardware and services for the most effective product set. The 2010 study has 737 pages, 206 tables and figures.

The popularity of the on-demand deployment model has increased significantly. Systems provide security, response time, and service availability. SaaS software as a service application is widely known by the salesforce.com computing model illustrates. Business applications and computing models have matured and adoption has become an issue for every IT department. Platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) have joined SaaS as compelling aspects of cloud computing applications and infrastructure services.

An organization's application development team and the application portfolio need to be managed as a piecemeal part of the IT infrastructure. It is generally managed on an application by application basis. Applications represent a major source of IT value and are a large IT cost component.

The major management objectives for this critical area of applications implementation include improving service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption, increasing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) efficiency, improving cost management, and reducing ineffective spending.

The fundamental aspect of applications implementation relates to flexibility. The ability to be responsive to changing market conditions is central to the modern IT management task and the desire for systems that support that is anticipated to spur rapid growth of cloud computing. SOA services oriented architecture forms the base for achieving that capability.

Cloud Stack Layers - IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are disruptive IT technology. Cloud markets are poised to get very big. At $20.3 billion in 2009 solar panels are anticipated to reach $100.4 billion by 2016. Market growth comes because the technology has caught the imagination of IT mangers, on demand computing seems to work, viurtualization works, and the utility industry model is now applicable to IT. As IBM and others built out software that integrates across open systems, the cloud computing markets are enabled.

The cloud computing technology works, its benefits have a positive ROI over the useful life of the servers, even a significant payback. The software systems are integrated, automated process is at the cusp of significant shifts in compute capacity delivery. Cloud computing is a disruptive technology. On demand cloud computing provides the cheap, easy to use, dependable computing hardware and software services model needed to drive industrial growth.

Companies Profiled
IBM Google Adobe Systems Salesforce.com BMC EMC Hewlett Packard (HP) Amazon Microsoft Dynamics GP Brocade Panda Security Akamai Areti Internet AppScale Ariba Axios Cassiopeia Internet / Constellate CDC Software Consona CrownePeak Dell Descartes Enki FedEx FrontRange Solutions Fortress ITX Fujitsu Inteq Joyent	Cisco NetSuite Software AG ATT Tibco Xerox CA / 3Tera Progress Software RedHat Yahoo Layered Technologies Juniper Ketera Novell Interoperable Linux Cloud Platforms Omniture Oracle Rackspace RightNow Technologies Rightscale Sage Figures CRM into its Equation Savvis Service-now.com SugarCRM SumTotal Symantec Tenzing Cloud Computing Services Verizon Workday

Report Methodology

This is the 381st report in a series of market research reports that provide forecasts in communications, telecommunications, the internet, computer, software, and telephone equipment. The project leaders take direct responsibility for writing and preparing each report. They have significant experience preparing industry studies. Forecasts are based on primary research and proprietary data bases. Forecasts reflect analysis of the market trends in the segment and related segments. Unit and dollar shipments are analyzed through consideration of dollar volume of each market participation in the segment. Market share analysis includes conversations with key customers of products, industry segment leaders, marketing directors, distributors, leading market participants, and companies seeking to develop measurable market share. Over 200 in-depth interviews are conducted for each report with a broad range of key participants and opinion leaders in the market segment.

About the Company

WinterGreen Research, founded in 1985, provides strategic market assessments in telecommunications, communications equipment, health care, and advanced computer technology. Industry reports focus on opportunities that will expand existing markets or develop major new markets. The reports assess new product and service positioning strategies, new and evolving technologies, and technological impact on products, services, and markets. Market shares are provided. Leading market participants are profiled, and their marketing strategies, acquisitions, and strategic alliances are discussed. The principals of WinterGreen Research have been involved in analysis and forecasting of international business opportunities in telecommunications and advanced computer technology markets for over 30 years.

About the Principal Authors

Ellen T. Curtiss, Technical Director, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, conducts strategic and market assessments in technology-based industries. Previously she was a member of the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., for 23 years, most recently as Vice President of Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, specializing in strategic planning and market development services. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Program for Management Development at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She is the author of recent studies on worldwide telecommunications markets and the Top Ten Telecommunications market analysis and forecasts.

Susan Eustis, President, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, has done research in communications and computer markets and applications. She holds several patents in microcomputing and parallel processing. She is the author of recent studies of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) marketing strategies, Internet software, a study of Push to Talk Equipment, Worldwide Telecommunications Equipment, Top Ten Telecommunications, Digital Loop Carrier, Web Hosting, Business Process Management, Servers, Blades, the Mainframe as a Green Machine, and Application Server markets. Ms. Eustis is a graduate of Barnard College.