Gartner's SaaS Predictions for 2013
Gartner's SaaS Predictions for 2013
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.
Join For FreeDiscover a centralized approach to monitor your virtual infrastructure, on-premise IT environment, and cloud infrastructure – all on a single platform.
Robert Desisto recently posted Gartner’s 2013 Software as a Service predictions, and an IT professional asked me for my opinion. Here are my thoughts on how the SaaS predictions impact enterprise IT strategies and tactics:
Key findings from the Gartner predictions include:
- [SaaS] Service-level agreements (SLAs) will continue to lag behind customer needs.
My Take: Most likely true for enterprise organizations that require significant availability, reliability, and performance. Inserting a gateway/proxy in between the enterprise users and the SaaS application can help organizations monitor SaaS compliance with SLAs.
- Platform as a service (PaaS) will become a must-have for enterprise-class software as a service (SaaS) applications.
My Take: I would moderate this statement and propose “Teams developing SaaS applications will gain greater productivity by building on top of PaaS platforms that internally manage multi-tenancy, tenant-aware and service-aware load balancing, resource pooling, and elastic scalability. SaaS applications built as cloud-aware applications on multi-tenant, shared container PaaS will maximize scalability while reducing cost per tenant. what is your evaluation criteria for selecting an appropriate PaaS platform?
- The role of Internal Cloud Service Brokers will become more important for Enterprise SaaS intiatives.
My Take: Internal Cloud Service brokers can overlay identity provisioning, security and service level management on external Enterprise SaaS offerings. An internal cloud service broker can be implemented in-house by deploying an API manager product that will monitor usage, enforce access policies, enforce subscription policies, and provide a single user provisioning console.
What are your SaaS predictions that impact application service adoption?
Learn how to auto-discover your containers and monitor their performance, capture Docker host and container metrics to allocate host resources, and provision containers.
Like This Article? Read More From DZone
Published at DZone with permission of Chris Haddad , DZone MVB. See the original article here.
Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.
{{ parent.title || parent.header.title}}
{{ parent.tldr }}
{{ parent.linkDescription }}
{{ parent.urlSource.name }}