The biggest problem with Cloud Computing is knowing what it actually is. That's the conclusion of the latest TechRadar report from Forrester Research.
Forrester has identified 11 service categories that fall into three classes of Cloud services: software you rent; application services and platforms that are middleware components that enable developers to build Cloud applications; and infrastructure services and platforms that are places to deploy Cloud applications.
"While most Cloud services are immature today, and thus really only best applied to new applications and services, as they mature their applicability to existing applications and equipment will increase," said Forrester analyst and report author James Staten. "Forrester recommends that organisations begin a strategic 'right-sourcing' approach to optimising their IT shops, looking for elements of their portfolio that can be replaced, over time, by Cloud services."
Forrester's research considered four factors when evaluating the technologies: current maturity of the category of technology; potential impact on customers busines models; the time that experts think the technology will need to reach the next stage of maturity; and overall trajectory from minimal to significant success.
The services identified include: business process management-as-a-service; Cloud billing; Cloud labs; database-as-a-service, desktop- as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, integration-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and storage-as-a-service.
Only IaaS and SaaS came out as being relatively successful today while Coud labs, Desktop as a Service, Storage as a Service and Business Process Management as a Service were said to have enjoyed minimal success to date.
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