What’s the Difference between Cloud Computing & SaaS?

2008 December 7
by Arun Bhai

Q. What’s the Difference between Cloud Computing & SaaS?

A. It is the same as the difference between TV and Cable TV. TV is a technology. However, Cable TV is a business model using this technology.

Cloud Computing refers to an architecture where web applications can scale easily to any number of users. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a business model where computing software is provided in a ‘pay as you use’ model. SaaS is often built using Cloud Computing. But all Cloud Computing apps don’t use the SaaS model.

Therefore Cloud Computing != SaaS

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5 Responses leave one →
  1. December 30, 2008

    Hahaha amazing analogy :D … never thought one could explain SaaS and cloud computing in those terms.

    Great blog btw ….

  2. meera permalink
    March 24, 2010

    Thanx for putting this in such simple terms!!

  3. June 15, 2010

    Great explanation! I have pointed several people to this one as well…

    SaaS

    http://www.surgeforward.com/InternetCloud.aspx

  4. June 15, 2010

    Such a wondeful analogy to explain .

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