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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings occupy an interesting but hazy middle ground between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and SaaS, and are designed to offer a large-scale development platform for application developers. Based on our cloud taxonomy, PaaS and IaaS represent the infrastructure of cloud computing. IaaS vendors provide outsourced infrastructure (servers, OS, storage, datacenter space, etc.) via a virtualized environment. The PaaS vendors in this analysis provide a computing environment where multiple applications share a single development platform and common services, including authentication, authorization and billing.

The market is highly touted, but current revenue levels are modest, with a handful of players dominating the landscape today. However, as the market evolves and vendors vie for market share using price and service levels as weapons, the PaaS marketplace, and the vendor leader board, will certainly shift.

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