Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) Point the Way to the Future

There is a now-unstoppable trend toward downplaying the role of packaged software that is installed on the desktop, relying instead on internet-based applications hosted in the cloud. This accelerated dramatically with the onset of the Coronavirus and working-from-home. The trend is called Software as a Service (SaaS). In fact, Sun Microsystem’s famous positioning line of long standing, “The network is the computer,” pretty well sums up this movement, a thought that “uses the internet as the computing platform of the future.” Microsoft, Google, IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and other leading firms are quickly enhancing their own suites of internet-based applications.

Cloud computing is the use of remote servers, often owned and operated by third-party service providers, to store and access data and software, as opposed to servers owned by the user. Firms that offer cloud services run clusters of computers networked together, often based on open standards. Such cloud networks can consist of thousands of computers. Cloud services enable a client company to immediately increase computing capability without any investment in physical infrastructure. (The word “cloud” is also broadly used to describe any data or application that runs via the internet.) The concept of cloud computing is key to the growing use of SaaS.

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