XaaS pronounced |zah-ss| or |zaas| ▸ acronym
XaaS is a collective term said to stand for a number of things including "X as a Service" or "Anything as a Service " or "Everything as a Service. " The acronym refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over a cloud computing environment either via a Public Cloud (Internet) or Private Cloud (On-Premises). XaaS securely unifies the public and private cloud, delivering the promise of cloud computing.
XaaS encompasses SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), HaaS (Hardware as a Service), MaaS (Management as a Service), CaaS (Communications as a Service) or DaaS (Data or Database or Desktop as a Service).