XaaS – using cloud to provide added value

Grazed from F5. Author: Nathan Pearce.

The idea of hype in the technology industry is something we’ve talked about on these blogs a few times before. We’ve talked about it with software-defined networking (SDN), for example, and now I want to touch on the same idea with cloud computing. The point I’ve made about SDN is that, despite its relative infancy, it’s already a term that has lost a lot of its meaning, because there is no clear, universally agreed definition and there are so many different use cases. You can read more on that here.

And so to cloud computing. There is no one single thing that is known as cloud computing. It is a huge variety of services and applications and platforms provided by a huge variety of different companies. The decision to embrace cloud computing is not an all inclusive decision; there are so many different types of cloud computing that one could argue the phrase has lost a lot of its meaning…

That is particularly true when looking at the X-as-a-Service (XaaS) industry. Just look at some of the options for the XaaS industry: Software-as-a-Servce (SaaS) from the likes of salesforce.com, Google’s Drive platform, Microsoft Office 365; Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) from Microsoft Azure and Google and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) from Amazon, Rackspace and Google (again). That’s just a fraction of the companies offering the services, and in many cases there is very little to differentiate them…

Read more from the source @ https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/xaas-using-cloud-to-provide-added-value#.UzQXPq1dWRM

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