“SAAS over PAAS over IAAS over my own data centre” – some thoughts
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This is a headline from a quote which came from my friend, a C-level executive in one of the biggest corporations in Finland. You might wonder why, as a representative of a company that doesn’t particularly preach cloud*, and doesn’t provide a full set of services for managing key SaaS components like ERPs or CRMs, I would bring up the topic.
Naturally, I want to talk about the role of custom-built software running on PaaS. I agree that when SaaS does the trick, you should choose it over a custom PaaS-application.
Let’s start with the easy part: Why is PaaS superior to IaaS?
There are a number of reasons:- Capacity is dirt cheap
- Labour is expensive
- Capacity is getting cheaper rapidly
- Labour costs are increasing.
* There’s enough market demand with the believers to spend time on educating the non-believers (!)
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