XaaS era: cloud services explosive growth

Beijing Time August 15 News, the U.S. It website Networkworld recently published a freelance writer Christine Burns Christine Burns article said that cloud services are making explosive growth, "AAS" as the suffix of the cloud services are growing at a dizzying speed, This service is called "XaaS" by the industry organization the Open group and is a generalization of all cloud-related services. The article points out that by 2015, the global XaaS market will be more than 40 billion U.S. dollars.

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If you are concerned about the development of cloud computing, you will undoubtedly be familiar with "Software as a Service" (SaaS), a term typically associated with Salesforce.com, or "infrastructure as a Service" (Infrastructure-as-a-service,iaas), Amazon is a pioneer in this field. But are you familiar with CaaS, Secaas, DaaS, Maas and Baas?

These new "services" acronyms are classified as XaaS (pronounced [zass]), according to the industry organization, the Open group. According to the American Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), XaaS is a generalization of all cloud-related services.

XaaS is used to describe any service that can remind people of reusable, fine-grained software companies that are distributed in a virtualized cloud network. If you integrate the market's expectations of the applications, application infrastructure, and system infrastructure that are delivered as public cloud services, you will get the data that the total global XaaS market will exceed 40 billion dollars by 2015.

The most common examples of XaaS are "software as a service", "infrastructure as a service" and "platform-as-service" (Platform as a Service,paas). However, the suffix of "service" is growing at a dizzying rate, following only part of the current service in the cloud services sector:

--Storage as service (storage as a services, abbreviation is also SaaS)

--Security as a Service,secaas

--Database as a service (db as a Service,daas)

--monitoring/management as a service (monitoring/management as a Service,maas)

--Communication, content and computation as service (communications, contents and computing as a Service,caas)

-Identity as a service (identity as a Service,idaas)

--Backup as the service (backup as a Service,baas)

--Desktop as a service (desktop as a Service,daas)

The Open Group's chief technology officer, David Langsbery David Lounsbury, is not a fan of XaaS. He pointed out that over the past more than 10 years, the organization has been promoting a "service-oriented Architecture" (SOA) computing model, and pointed out the recently released "service-Oriented Cloud architecture" (service-oriented Cloud Computing INFRASTRUCTURE,SOCCI) is the guiding principle for how SOA and cloud services are naturally calibrated.

"When Will the furious development of cloud services stop and precipitate and become a real business that can be run daily?" Said Lance Berry.

No matter how often the service providers continue to add "AAS" to their product descriptions, industry watchers, practitioners and users agree that the practice of implementing XaaS in the future will be more related to a trend in which customers align their existing business practices with the basic tenants of cloud services, Instead of the service providers how to name their services.

"Cloud services are more about how you consume technology to adapt your own business processes, and less about the technology itself." "Tiffani Bova, vice president of research firm Gartner, Nie Bovas, said. WA points out that it experts are not sitting there brooding over what kind of server the cloud application should run on; they know they can easily get those apps out of cloud services and are now trying to decide how to build solutions around them to address intelligent business processes and security and governance parameters.

Edward Newman Edward Newman, head of global practice for private cloud services at EMC Consulting, said the company has been trying for the past five years to get customers to think more about it services and less about the single component of the cloud infrastructure. At the same time, corporate clients are listening to this advice. "In the Devop area of enterprise IT, companies are looking at cloud services for a more agile application development environment, while at the same time we see the same thing in IT service management." "said Newman.

Newman added that corporate customers were conducting a rigorous review of IT services that had previously run in redundant "silos" within their companies and were now turning to cloud services as a way of delivering these services, which was more consistent and economical.

Energy Plus, a subsidiary of the US power supplier NRG, which is based in Philadelphia, is an online power retail service company that supports 185,000 customers in 8 states and 100 partners in its incentive program, mainly through the way of cloud services. Hugh Scott Hugh Scott, the company's chief information officer, explained that 18 months ago the company had made a decision to move from a managed facility operated by software and process solution providers sungard to the use of cloud services. The company tested cloud services from Microsoft and Amazon and eventually decided to use SunGard's corporate cloud services. At present, most of the company's business processes are in the SunGard Enterprise cloud services, including all public-oriented network services, direct marketing applications and their registration engine.

"I doubt we'll be able to put our ' secret weapons ' in the cloud service--for us, that's our backend reward program--because we don't want to run a commercialized version. But in addition, everything else can be discussed. We will gladly accept cloud services, which can help us achieve rapid growth and provide us with more flexibility in our own business practices. "said Scott.

Joseph Coyle, chief technology officer of Gemini, an IT consultancy, Joseph Coille that several XaaS categories are becoming popular in midsize enterprises because they are either easily outsourced services (UCaaS) or have become a requirement, The premise is that it companies choose to run their business in cloud services (MaaS), or mature enough to bring credibility to the company, such as the network as a service (NaaS).

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