Services in the Cloud Computing era: A survey

Abstract

Cloud Computing is becoming a well-known buzzword nowadays. As a brand new infrastructure to offer services, Cloud Computing systems have many superiorities in comparing to those existed traditional service provisions, such as reduced upfront investment, expected performance, high availability, infinite scalability, tremendous fault-tolerance capability and so on and consequently chased by most of the IT companies, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce.com. Based on their overwhelming predominance in traditional service provisions and capital accumulation, most of these IT companies have more chance to adapt their services into such a new environment earlier, say Cloud Computing systems. On the other hand, a large number of new companies are spawned with competitive services relayed on those provided Cloud Computing systems. In terms of their provisions, we divide those services into six categories in this paper, say Data as a Service (Daas), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Identity and Policy Management as a Service (IPMaaS), Network as a Service (NaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Detailed analysis to these services are provided, as well as those companies which provide the corresponding service categories.