I have been researching about cloud computing since the year of 2011 arrived. And now I have settled to do my dissertation under this topic because of Intellectual Property Rights issues arising in cloud computing. Under cloud computing currently there are three service models called IaaS - Infrastructure as a service , PaaS - Platform as a service and SaaS - Software as a service .While doing online searches I have been confused by the term SaaS . Why is there a confusion ?????????
Actually SaaS means Software as a service and some also refer to it as a Storage as a service. Storage service comes under the purview of IaaS - Infrastructure as a service i.e this service model provides servers, networks to the customer and also includes storage service. So is there a new service called Storage as a service emerging in the cloud or is it a sub type of IaaS ????
A simple example for storage as a service is www.dropbox.com where you can store your files and share with others. The site is exclusively meant for storing your files online and access them anywhere no matter where you work. In some books Storage as a service is termed as STaaS. But in some websites it is termed like SaaS which confuses , but after reading the content you get to know that it is storage as a service. But I strongly go for the term STaaS for Storage as a service.Ultimately I feel that there is confusion. I hope the confusion gets clarified as soon as possible.
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