Cloudy Concepts: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, MaaS, CaaS & XaaS. Generally I.T. folk, whether in Storage, Virtualization, Change Management or Project Management love the use of acronyms and synonyms to express key concepts amongst each other.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudy-concepts-iaas-paas-saas-maas-caas-xaas/
XaaS - Anything-as-a-Service. Related Terms. Anything-as-a-service, or XaaS, refers to the growing diversity of services available over the Internet via cloud computing as opposed to being provided locally, or on premises.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/anything-as-a-service_xaas.html
What is XaaS (anything as a service)? XaaS is a collective term said to stand for a number of things including X as a service, anything as a service or everything as a service.. The acronym refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site. XaaS is the essence of cloud computing.
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/XaaS-anything-as-a-service
Finally XaaS or ‘anything as a service’ is the delivery of IT as a Service through hybrid Cloud computing and is a reference to either one or a combination of Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS). communications as a service (CaaS) or monitoring as a service (Maas).
http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudy-concepts-iaas-paas-saas-maas-caas-xaas/
What is XaaS? The X refers to “anything” or “everything” as a service. XaaS has frequently been used as an umbrella term to encompass SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).
https://www.chargify.com/blog/xaas-everything-as-a-service/
Many claim the future of SaaS lies in Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS). We agree, but also see XaaS as having an even greater impact and think it is important for entrepreneurs to understand how XaaS may apply to their own companies. Think of today’s blog as XaaS 101. A primer on: What XaaS is. Where it came from.
https://www.chargify.com/blog/xaas-everything-as-a-service/
Cloud computing. Cloud computing metaphor: For a user, the network elements representing the provider-rendered services are invisible, as if obscured by a cloud. Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XaaS
At GreenPages, we see the emergence of XaaS (such as DaaS) as a natural evolution of the market for cloud services. This sort of market behaviour is nothing new for other industries in a competitive market. Take a look at the auto industry (another one of my favorite examples).
https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2014/aug/18/x-as-a-service-xaas-what-the-future-of-cloud-computing-will-bring/
Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) Related Terms. Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) is a cloud computing term for the extensive variety of services and applications emerging for users to access on demand over the Internet as opposed to being utilized via on-premises means.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/everything-as-a-service_xaas.html
First, what is XaaS? Is this just more marketing fluff? Why do we need to define yet another model to fully describe cloud services? I contest that XaaS is a legitimate term, and that it is useful to describe a new type of cloud services — those that make use of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS all neatly delivered in one package. Such packages are intended to fully displace the delivery of a commodity IT service.
https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2014/aug/18/x-as-a-service-xaas-what-the-future-of-cloud-computing-will-bring/
what is xaas
Anything as a Service is an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site. XaaS is an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site.