Name: Faridullah

Registration Nu: 17000

Subject: Advance Theory of Computation
Assignment: (1)
Session: Afternoon
Lecturer: Mr. Aizaz Ul Haq

Abasyn University of Peshawar

Cloud Computing: As a Service
Cloud computing provides the facility to access shared resources and common infrastructure,
offering services on demand over the network to perform operations that meet changing business
needs. The location of physical resources and devices being accessed are typically not known to
the end user. It also provides facilities for users to develop, deploy and manage their applications
‘on the cloud’, which entails virtualization of resources that maintains and manages itself. Some
generic examples include:
Software as a service is a model of software deploy where an application is hosted as a service
provided to customers across the Internet. SaaS is generally used to refer to business software
rather than consumer software, which falls under Web 2.0. By removing the need to install and
run an application on a user’s own computer it is seen as a way for businesses to get the same
benefits as commercial software with smaller cost outlay. SaaS can alleviate the burden of software
maintenance and support but users relinquish control over software versions and requirements.
Other terms that are used in this sphere include Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS). A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. A private cloud is a
proprietary network or a data center that supplies hosted services to a limited number of people.
[1].
Where is Cloud Computing Standing?
The article demonstrates in-depth the future cloud computing paradigms, including fog computing,
MEC, and dew computing, to help readers grasp principles correlated with different future
cloud computing paradigms. The groups in Cisco, European Telecom-Standards Institute
(ETSI), and the research community all respectively proposed these modern paradigms and each
has its focus owing to its particular objectives and clear fields of implementation. While these
future cloud computing paradigms vary in terms of objectives, technologies, and fields of
implementation, their core principles remain the same. That is to suggest, they aim to implement
cloud infrastructures more physically and logically similar to end-users and their devices and then
use the tools for computing and storing them in local infrastructures to complete the required
measurement or storage of end-users easily, thus speeding up processing and response times and
increasing user experience. It undertook a comparative study of future cloud computing paradigms
to gain insight into the creation and implementation of future cloud computing paradigms
and to consider the different aspects of current network computing paradigm to provide a
systematic summary of their emphases and distinctions.

What in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS the new developments are?

Iaas:Infrastructure as a Service

 Highly flexible and highly scalable.

 Accessible by multiple users.
 Cost-effective.

Paas: Plarform as service

 Accessible by multiple users.

 Scalable – you can choose from various tiers of resources to suit the size of your
business.
 Built on virtualization technology.
 Easy to run without extensive system administration knowledge.

Saas: Software as Service

 Available over the internet.

 Hosted on a remote server by a third-party provider.
 Scalable, with different tiers for small, medium, and enterprise-level businesses.
 Inclusive, offering security, compliance, and maintenance as part of the cost.

What in your opinion is the future strong point of SaaS?

The future strong point for the SAAS is if someone want to join the list of Saas productivity
they need to follow these two main ways for SaaS startups to tackle the B2B software market:
A. Vertical SaaS — software that answers the needs of a specific industry. Think of areas such
as healthcare, education, accounting and finance or real estate.

B. Horizontal SaaS — products that focus on a software category. A good example

is Quickbooks–which serves countless industries that need online accounting software.

 A larger, educated customer base:

 More competitive landscape:
  Category winners have control:
 Educating the market:
 But Many verticals don’t yet have clear category winners and no platform dynamics have
been created.

References:
[1] Gurudatt Kulkarni, J. G. (March 2012). Cloud Computing Software as a service. Pune,
India: International journal of cloud computing and services Science.

[2] https://medium.com/@GetDrip/software-renaissance-a-few-thoughts-about-the-future-of-saas-
and-what-to-do-about-it-f321f1f6babb