Cloud of clouds of cloud services rising and exploding

If you have always been very concerned about cloud computing, then your software as a service and salesforce.com the two names must not be too unfamiliar, and as for the infrastructure is the service of understanding, presumably Amazon.com will also appear in everyone's mind. But how much do you know about CaaS, Secaas, DaaS, Maas and Baas? What kind of service can we bring to these new faces?

After the Association of International open Standards organizations of industry associations, all of the above abbreviations, made up of "service" (AaS), are collectively referred to as XaaS (read ' Zaas ') and, according to NIST (i.e., the National Institute of Standards and Technology), are all related to cloud services.

XaaS covers any reusable and well-defined service that operates in the form of software components in virtual cloud networks. And according to expert expectations of the future direction of applications, application infrastructure, and system infrastructure, these projects will be transformed into public cloud services worldwide by 2015, when XaaS's overall market will also reach an alarming level of $40 billion trillion.

The most familiar of the XaaS family are usually software as services (SaaS), infrastructure as Service (IaaS), and Platform-service (PaaS). But the rapid growth of the "service" camp has really made us feel the "flower-and-eye", and take a look at the following emerging cloud services:

n Storage as a service (another SaaS)

n Security as Service (Secaas)

N Database as service (DaaS)

N Monitoring/Management as a service (MaaS)

n Communication, content and computation as service (CaaS)

N Authentication as a service (IDAAS)

n Backup as a service (BAAS)

n Desktop that service (DaaS)

International Open Standards Organization CTO David Lounsbury is not very interested in XaaS's flourish. He points out that open standards organizations have spent more than 10 years pushing forward on service-oriented Computing Systems (SOA), and the recent launch of their service-oriented cloud infrastructure (SOCCI) framework is a set of guiding concepts that ensure the smooth alignment of SOA with cloud computing.

"When will we be able to put aside our enthusiasm for cloud computing and turn our impulses into truly viable day-to-day business practices?" Lounsbury said with regret.

However, the banner of the big also need to rely on real material, industry watchers, practitioners and end-users have said that no matter how many service providers to the "XaaS" to launch the number of follow-up products, what we really need is to be able to effectively serve the production work of the stable technology. It is the correct direction of the historical trend to combine the existing business with the cloud computing advantages, rather than the suppliers ' endless publicity, peddling and bundling of their own services.

In the view of Tiffani Bova, vice president of Gartner Research, "The essence of cloud computing should be a consumer technology that adjusts to business processes, and simply putting the focus on the cloud itself is clearly putting the cart before the horse." "It pros do not have to revolve around a physical server to try to figure out which cloud applications are running on the device," Bova. On the contrary, they are able to easily access the applications in the cloud environment, and on this basis to create an intelligent business process and parameter management security, such as a series of effective peripheral services.

The company has been working over the past five years to help customers think more about IT services themselves rather than blindly focus on the components of the cloud infrastructure, said Edward Newman, head of global business for private cloud services at EMC Consulting. At present their efforts have begun to bear fruit, and business managers have shifted their attention in the right direction. "It is from the perspective of development operators that we consider cloud computing simply as a more agile application development environment." In this sense, IT service management should be equally focused, "Newman points out.

He added that corporate customers had been indifferent to IT services, arguing that it was just an island of technology running through the enterprise. But the advent of cloud computing has changed things, services have become more integrated, and technology has begun to connect to business with low-cost and approachable gestures.

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Hugh Scott, the company's CIO, explained that 18 months ago business executives decided to adopt the facility hosting service provided by SunGard and formally hand cloud computing. Before finalizing the decision, the company once tested the cloud products of several technology giants, including Microsoft and Amazon, and eventually set up SunGard Enterprise cloud services. Today, the company has moved a large number of business processes into the cloud platform, including public-facing web operations, direct marketing applications, and a number of key services such as registration engines.

"I was skeptical about Yu Yun and advocated handing over irrelevant work to Yunping--such as the back-end bonus program--Because the trivia really didn't have to involve too much effort on the business." But the fact has dispelled my concerns, and a stable and mature technical environment has given us the courage to make decisions. Now we are ready to cloud the full range of products, and take the opportunity to achieve the rapid development of the company and win higher business practice flexibility, "Scott explained."

The company's CTO Joseph Coyle, an IT consulting firm, commented on several emerging types of XaaS, who he believes are becoming more competitive in the midsize enterprise market. In his view, some of them were made to simplify outsourcing (UCaaS), some of the necessary elements of the IT department to connect with Cloud computing (MaaS), and some were highly praised for their good word-of-mouth and mature performance-for example, the network as a service (NaaS).