THE CHALLENGES OF SaaS PARADIGM As with any new technology, SaaS and cloud concepts too suffer a number of limitations. These technologies are being diligently examined for specific situations and scenarios. The prickling and tricky issues indifferent layers and levels are being looked into. The overall views are listed out below. Loss or lack of the following features deters the massive adoption of clouds 1. Controllability 2. Visibility & flexibility 3. Security and Privacy 4. High Performance and Availability 5. Integration and Composition 6. Standards A number of approaches are being investigated for resolving the identified issues and flaws. Private cloud, hybrid and the latest community cloud are being prescribed as the solution for most of these inefficiencies and deficiencies. As rightly pointed out by someone in his weblogs, still there are miles to go. There are several companies focusing on this issue.
