2013 cloud providers five major trends PAAs for the King

In the current situation, cloud computing has a very good advantage, but in terms of vendor financial reporting, cloud computing is largely just symbolic. Even the optimistic estimate, its market profit is only achieved less than 1% of the total.

From all aspects of the situation, 2012 seems to be a better development of cloud computing year. Over the past year, in addition to being a favorite of all media, cloud computing has reaped a bumper harvest in the number and scope of implementations. While the outlook for cloud computing is promising, cloud computing is largely symbolic of the vendor's financial reporting. Even the optimistic estimate, its market profit is only achieved less than 1% of the total.

Cloud providers or potential suppliers are concerned; how can services be transformed into commodities? Fortunately, the simultaneous increase in cloud computing transactions in 2013 will further boost the future of cloud computing. Here are five major trends for cloud providers in the 2013.

PAAs as King

One of the drivers of cloud computing is that the platform-service (PaaS) is the first choice for cloud computing services. While the current infrastructure, service (IaaS) products dominate the market, the model's cloud computing products have been mired in low price competition and profit pressures, and it is more apparent that IaaS's business claims are no longer clear. More importantly, both buyers and sellers of cloud computing are questioning the question, "If cloud computing is so different from other service delivery models, why not derive its own application stream for cloud computing?" ”

If the application is not at the top of the cloud stack and the server is not at the bottom of the stack, IaaS is the lowest-threshold option for entering the cloud. As cloud buyers continue to rise at the stack level, their costs are increasing, but their potential savings follow the same trajectory. In other words, cloud computing services can only partly save the cost of maintaining the same scale of internal deployment resources, which means that IaaS simply saves the cost of the hardware for cloud buyers.

As a result, software as a service (SaaS) saves the most cost while IaaS saves the least cost. However, SaaS requires an extended application software library, so cloud providers must transform themselves into software developers and integrators to create higher-level products. When they do, vendors realize that by providing more virtual machines (VM) hosting, they can add additional value to these partnerships and create a more unified platform-running framework that allows vendors to lower their own cloud support costs.

Cloud computing is no longer the main mechanism for its cost and profit management. Recently, PAAs has made cloud computing the virtual cloud computing operating system in some sense. After all, every time a cloud provider provides a new cloud-based service, it effectively creates a virtual cloud computing operating system. Today, most PAAs services correspond to a traditional operating system (OS), but in the future, the PAAs environments of different vendors are different, all based on the current conventional operating system to create a cloud-based operating system.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)