Move Over SaaS, Here Comes EaaS
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Q. What's the abbreviation for cloud computing? |
EaaS?
Yes. It stands for Everything as a Service, and showed up in a Hewlett-Packard document discussing its 2008 research objectives.
It's not just Software as a Service that companies will access via the cloud, but other computing needs such as storage. SaaS will become a subset of EaaS.
"As the IT industry at large and HP move to the 'Everything as a Service' (EaaS) or Cloud Services model, and as all forms of mass communication converge on the Internet platform, predictable, robust, high-performance and cost-effective networking services will be crucial," the HP document says. "Operational networks today are straining to keep up with the volume and variety of applications, and their diverse requirements of end-to-end network connectivity with sufficient and predictable quality, security, reliability, and mobility."
