Most organizations are looking to move to the cloud now. While many have not understood Cloud and its capabilities, they do understand the importance of this technology for their businesses. With the cloud landscape expanding fast, it offers immense growth opportunities for businesses. XaaS is the newest entrant to the cloud computing landscape.
XaaS, read as anything as a service or everything as a service, is a collective term to describe a new type of cloud service. One that combines SaaS, IaaS and PaaS – the current service models of cloud computing. Whether it is the software used or the desktop, XaaS will displace the entire set of IT services used currently.
Desktop as a Service, better referred to as DaaS, is a great example of XaaS. With DaaS, a service provider can assemble servers that can be run on desktop infrastructure provided by IaaS, office suite through SaaS, and maintenance of services. The service provider would choose the best configuration depending on the need and budget of the customer.
Fundamentally, XaaS is not something new to businesses. Other sectors such as the auto industries work on such an arrangement. Various parts manufactured by different industries are assembled together to build a great end product for the customer. XaaS is pretty much the same concept applied to cloud computing.
So, should your company consider XaaS? Since XaaS aims to displace the individual commodity services provided by IT companies, it is a good bet for the customers. IT companies, who are not gaining significant revenue from commodity services anyway, will also not be dented by the emergence of XaaS. Clearly then, investment of both time and money into XaaS will deliver immense value to businesses worldwide.