XaaS Anything as a Service

Many cloud providers also offer other ‘as a Services’

These are sometimes described as XaaS ‘Anything as a Service’
Examples include:
DaaS Desktop as a Service
DRaaS Disaster Recovery as a Service
BaaS Backup as a Service
Storage as a Service
And many more
BaaS Backup as a Service
Cloud
Company Server
Provider
Office
42 U Server
4U
2U
2U
Server
8U

Storage Wide Area

System 8U Network
Company B Server
8U Office
2U
2U Server
2U
2U

Server

Data is backed up from Company Office to storage at Cloud Provider

 DRaaS Disaster Recovery as a Service
42 U

4U
2U Company Server
Cloud 2U
Office
Provider 8U
PC
8U

PC
8U

2U
2U Wide Area
2U
2U Network

This is an active/standby model

The customer has a traditional On Premises deployment with minimal infrastructure provisioned at the Cloud
Provider
Data is replicated from Company Office to Cloud Provider storage
Infrastructure can be quickly provisioned at Cloud Provider if customer experiences disaster at Company Office
DaaS Desktop as a Service
VIRTUAL MACHINE 1 VIRTUAL MACHINE 2 VIRTUAL MACHINE 3

STANDARD
APPLICATIONS
STANDARD
APPLICATIONS
STANDARD
APPLICATIONS Company Thin Client
Office
OPERATING SYSTEM: OPERATING SYSTEM: OPERATING SYSTEM:
WINDOWS DESKTOP WINDOWS DESKTOP WINDOWS DESKTOP Thin Client

HYPERVISOR
Thin Client

CPU RAM NIC

Wide Area
Network

DaaS is an implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure where the

VDI server infrastructure is hosted by the cloud provider.
Storage as a Service

Amazon S3

Dropbox
Microsoft OneDrive
Google Drive