A friend and now coworker of mine, Richard Seroter (@rseroter & Blog) decided to do a comparo. I took the infrastructure based deployment, ala IaaS and he took the platform based deployment, ala PaaS. What we’ve done is taken a somewhat standard ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework, a SQL Server Database, a UX & UI... Continue reading →

Windows Azure has several primary competitors in the IaaS Realm, even though they aren’t technically an IaaS Cloud Provider at all. Some of these competitors in this space are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace, GoGrid and VMWare. Each of these providers offer virtual machines with either Windows or Linux Operating Systems, multiple data centers for... Continue reading →

The Confusions of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS stand for Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service respectively. But what exactly is the context & definition of each of these acronyms? The simple definitions I’ve included below. IaaS – A service provided by a company, group,... Continue reading →