{"id":27202,"date":"2012-12-01T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2012-12-01T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T09:59:41","slug":"paas-to-rake-in-1-2-billion-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/27202\/paas-to-rake-in-1-2-billion-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"PaaS to rake in $1.2 billion in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is on track to reach $1.2 billion in 2012, up from $900 million in 2011, according to information technology research and advisory company, Gartner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gartner believes that the PaaS market will experience consistent growth with worldwide revenue totalling $1.5 billion in 2013, and growing to $2.9 billion in 2016.<\/p>\n

PaaS includes suites of application infrastructure services, such as application platforms as a service (aPaaS) and integration platforms as a service (iPaaS).<\/p>\n

It also includes specialist application infrastructure services, such as database platform as a service; business process management platform as a service; messaging as a service; and other functional types of middleware offered as a cloud service.<\/p>\n

“Of all the cloud technological aspects, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) are the most mature and established from a competitive landscape perspective, while PaaS is the least evolved,” said Fabrizio Biscotti<\/a>, research director at Gartner.<\/p>\n

“For this reason, PaaS is where the battle between vendors and products is set to intensify the most.<\/p>\n

The largest segments within the PaaS market are:<\/p>\n