What Is XaaS?

Some Dude Says
Nov 2 · 6 min read
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XaaS stands for Anything as a Service (or more accurately X as a Service). Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings have ballooned in the past few years, and with them came a new flood of ideas on what to monetize next. Databases as a Service (DBaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS or BDR), and Networks as a Service (NaaS) expanded on the original fixed platforms (among countless others)…

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