XaaS- What a Cloud Does For You

In this episode, part 3 of our 4-part series, we dive deeper into the three core on demand services provided by “The Cloud” – Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS,Compute, Storage and Networking), the well known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and the often confusing (development) Platfom-as-a-Service (PaaS). Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains what these X-as-a-Service models …

Understanding the Business Value of Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

Saas, PaaS, IaaS – What are they anyway? The services a cloud provides to business can be divided into three categories according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud model: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While all clouds are built on real, physical infrastructure of …