Everything as a Service (XaaS) is also known as Anything for a Service. The ‘X’ stands for Anything.
It is considered a subset of Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications and services) than can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
XaaS is a general category of cloud-based solutions that are deployed remotely and can be accessed on demand.
The ‘as-a-service’ model is increasingly becoming popular and companies are steadily embracing it. The Cloud computing market size is set to grow $623.3 Billion by 2020.
Sub-categories of XaaS,
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Comparison of the traditional IT solutions against the sub-categories of XaaS:
Traditional IT, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS
Even though these are the main Sub-categories of XaaS, gradually, XaaS has now evolved to include conceivable ‘Everything’, including;
HaaS – Hardware as a Service
BPaaS – Business Process as a Service
SECaaS – Security as a Service
MaaS – Mobility as a Service
DbaaS – Database as a Service
STaaS – Storage as a Service
DRaaS – Database Recovery as a Service
DaaS – Data as a Service
NaaS – Network as a Service
CaaS -Communication as a Service
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