“XaaS” Marks the Spot

No- it’s not the name of a Nordic death metal band, and you certainly cannot use it in a tense game of Scrabble.

XaaS is it’s own entity and it’s morphing quite literally into anything you’d like it to be. Anything as a service, or Everything as a service is everything that can be offered as a cloud-based IT service, which a pretty wide world of service categories with a long list of products in each

Examples of Xaas

Xaas has been on the rise in the IT world, there are several identities it’s taken to benefit users. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for example, is a cloud computing and backup service model that uses cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster. Some other examples include Metal as a Service- No- still not THAT kind of metal, or Network as a service (Naas). Really, if there is anything that you want through “as a service”, just head to XaaS.

There are many benefits offered by XaaS, for example, with constant availability to resources, data and other services, IT can respond quickly to any change in the business environment and enjoy better profit figures. Possibly one of the best attributes of Xaas, especially for small business, is the flexibility.  Being flexible is one of the greatest contributing factors for a company’s scalability. Since most of the processes and operations are handled by XaaS service providers, users can look forward to reduced costs, while enjoying an increase in their scalability metrics.

Here are a few ‘everything-as-a-service’ (Xaas) companies you may see floating around the cloud. To clarify-  Unified Communications as a Service = (UCaaS), Monitoring/Management as a Service = (MaaS) and recovery as a Service = (RaaS).

M5 Networks – M5 Offers UCaaS to customers looking to deploy IP communications through a hosted model.

Fuze– Twice named Gartner visionary, the company has placed a strong focus on providing a deep dive analytics engine that helps enterprises understand how their cloud-based unified communications is operating across the company

Boundary– offering MaaS, the company deploys agents on an enterprise’s applications running in the cloud that examine every packet they see cross the application.

BigSwitch– offering NaaS, Bigswitch  released an open-source controller based on OpenFlow, a switching and communications protocol that handles packet routing on a software layer, separate from the physical network infrastructure.

XaaS is not a question of “if” but rather of “when”. Businesses should understand and use this technology just to keep up with the competition. In fact, the cloud has simplified acquisition of IT systems by forcing enterprises to focus on the basics of feature, cost and utility.

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