Heard About XaaS ?

'Xaas' encompasses many technologies and tools that are provided by vendors as a service over the internet, as opposed to providing them onsite to an organization.

About XaaS :-

Recently, 'Pay-As-You-Go' concept is trending, especially in Cloud based services, which allows emerging IT Cluster to use costly services at low prices with high availability. Various IT Services like DBMS, computing cloud, storage, testing tools, software, infrastructure docking etc. can be grouped together under the term XaaS.

Providers of XaaS :-

1. Amazon Web Services ( AWS )
2. Microsoft Azure
3. Google Apps
4. Apache Stratos
5. Auvik

Advantages of XaaS are as follows :-

1. Speed up the process of Application Development,
2. Cost effective, if chosen wisely,
3. Scalability - Availability - Maintainability.

Disadvantages of XaaS are as follows :-

1. Tight coupling with internet,
2. Changing Cloud Vendor is a tedious process,
3. Need of expertise to handle XaaS.