Cloud Hosting and Software as a Service

[Cathlee]

What is the relation between Cloud Web Hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS)? As I have noticed that terms like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS usually comes together whenever there is a discussion about cloud computing.

[Macdale]

Basically, SaaS also called as Software as a Service is a special business model that offers software as a service with the use of a strong hosting infrastructure. Basic examples of SaaS are CRM, Banking, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.

Whereas, cloud hosting is a hosting service used by many SaaS providers to offer affordable, scalable and secure services deliver through Internet.

[phoenix65]

To make it simple to understand, Cloud is a platform where as SaaS, IaaS, PaaS etc are services that are offered over the Cloud platforms.

[Cathlee]

What is the main difference between software's provided through SaaS providers and Traditional software vendors? How SaaS is advantageous over the traditional software's?

[Macdale]

If you have noticed, many of the large businesses like e-commerce all over the world are opting for cloud services due to its reliability and scalability. Most of the times, the typical software's installed on your local system results in system error message due to the malfunctioning and you may face great loss in business.

Whereas, businesses that choose the SaaS services, never gets into such issues due to the smoother and efficient functionality. On cloud, the software's and applications required for enterprises does not requires to install or run from your local systems. They are placed on the remote web servers located in the web hosting data center.

The greatest advantage of opting SaaS, that as your business explores, you don't need to bear the license fees for the software the software's you used on the computers, or on each system in the network of your office is able to access it.

[SeanyG]

In addition to that, the providers offering SaaS services are specialized in technical support, in order to take care of your systems as well as they are equiped with latest technologies and high security systems to ensure the safety of your important data. Chances of data loss gets reduced due to the regular data backups held by the providers. They are capable of handling almost every situations that might arise.

[MattBarthorp]

To be very short but precise, below are the most convincing advanatages of SaaS over Traditional Software :

1. Save money.
2. Save time.
3. Focus your technology expenditure on competitive advantage instead of infrastructure.
4. Gain instant access to the latest innovations.

[alferied]

There can be a private cloud or a public cloud or even a shared cloud. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. (Currently, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud provider.) A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people. When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create their private cloud, the result is called a virtual private cloud. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.