SaaS and private clouds to lead cloud computing

SaaS has long been the most widely adopted cloud computing solutions and, while PaaS and IaaS are valuable, they are generally faced with limited adoptions as they only benefit specific types of organizations. Private clouds, on the other hand, started off slow and are now experiencing more widespread adoption.

A recent InformationWeek survey of IT decision makers found SaaS and private cloud computing are clearly leading the cloud computing industry. SaaS adoption is growing as large businesses adopt the service on a large scale to meet specific needs within the company. This is especially the case as SaaS allows an organization to reach smaller demographics within their customer-base with niche software.

Private clouds are becoming popular as a way to automate IT infrastructure and improve the distribution of services throughout a company. Through private clouds, businesses can quickly and flexibly deploy applications to workers based on specific needs. This can also provide the foundation for a pay-for-use model, allowing companies to save money on software deployments.

According to a recent report by eWeek, private clouds are attractive to companies because they offer many of the public cloud's advantages without having to outsource IT systems. This allows the company to maintain the control of a typical IT infrastructure while accelerating the deployment of software and flexibility of services.