*aas Virus

The *aas virus is rumoured to have been created by a marketing department in 2005, who were disillusioned with the IT industry. Initially the terms SaaS, Paas & Iaas were coined which made perfect sense and were a good way of explaining the benefits and opportunity of cloud computing. However, the virus rasied it's head, it started mutating into multiple forms and propogated the internet at an alarming rate. Strange *aas's such as aaas and gaas which are surely not the work of rational humans started appearing on the internet and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief as it was surely limited to 26 varaints due to the number of letters in the alphabet. After a little resistance it broke through creating terms such as DBaaS, STaas etc..but then as if to laugh in the face of the IT industry multiple meanings of the same *aas appeared.

...Ok that's obviously a bit tongue in cheek...but for a bit of fun I want to create a list of every *aas and it's definition out there. Below is as far as I have got but it you spot a new *aas please post a comment on this blog with a web link to the site. To qualify it must be quoted in a serious context on a companies website. I will then update the list on a monthly basis.....happy *aas spotting.

AaaS – Authentication as a Service; Application as a Service; Anything as a Service; Architecture as a Service; Analytics as a Service; Aggregation as a Service; Accounting as a Service; Anti Virus as a Service; Auctions as a Service;

BaaS – Business as a Service; Backup as a Service; Banking as a Service; Bandwidth as a Service; Blog as a Service; Business Process Management as a Service;

BBaaS – Black boxes as a Service;

BIaaS – Business Intelligence as a Service;

BLaaS – Blog as a Service;

BPaaS – Business Processes as a Service;

CaaS – Computing as a Service; Communication as a Service; Cells as a Service; Compliance as a Service; Crimeware as a Service; Content as a Service; Capability as a Service

CRMaaS – CRM as a Service;

DaaS – Datacentre as a Service; Database as a Service; Desktops as a Service; Data as a Service;

DBaas – Database as a service;

EaaS – Ethernet as a Service; Everything as a Service; Environments as a Service

FaaS – Firewall as a Service; Frameworks as a Service; Finance as a Service;

GaaS – Grid as a Service; Globalization as a Service; Governance as a Service

HaaS – Hardware as a Service; Humans as a Service

IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service;

IDaaS – Identity as a Service;

IMaaS – Information as a Service;

JaaS – Java as a Service;

KaaS – Knowledge as a Service

LaaS – Lending as a Service;

MaaS – Mashups as a Service;

NaaS – Network as a Service;

OaaS – Organization as a Service; Operation as a Service

PaaS – Platform as a Service; Process as a Service;

PRaaS – Processes as a Service

QaaS – Query as a Service; Quality as a Service;

RaaS – Resources as a Service; Reporting as a Service; Research as a Service; Restore as a Service

SaaS – Software as a Service; Service as a Service

SEaaS – Service Ecosystems as a Service;

STaaS – Storage as a Service;

TaaS – Testing as a Service; Technology as a Service; Tools as a Service; Trust as a Service

UaaS - Utilities as a Service;

VaaS – Voice as a Service; VMware as a Service; Video as a Service

WaaS – Web as a Service

Xaas – (umbrella term for all the aas’s!)

YaaS -

ZaaS – Zimbra as a Service


Cheers,

Andy