What is XaaS Everything as a Service.
                     What is XaaS: 
Everything as a 
Service
What is XaaS?
• XaaS is short for Everything-as-a-Service and sometimes Anything-as-a-Service. XaaS reflects 
how organizations across the globe are adopting the as-a-Service method for delivering just 
about, well, everything.
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BENEFITS OF 
XAAS
Improving the 
expense model
• With XaaS, businesses can cut costs by purchasing services from providers on a 
subscription basis.
• Before XaaS and cloud services, businesses had to buy individual products software, 
hardware, servers, security, infrastructure install them on site, and then link everything 
together to create networks. 
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Speeding new apps & 
business processes
• This model allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing market conditions 
with new apps or solutions. 
• Using multitenant approaches, cloud services can provide much-needed 
flexibility. 
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Shifting IT resources 
to higher-value 
projects
• Increasingly, IT organizations are turning to an XaaS delivery model to streamline 
operations and free up resources for innovation. 
• They are also using the benefits of XaaS to transform digitally and become more 
agile. 
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DISADVANTAGES OF 
XAAS
Possible downtime
• The internet sometimes breaks, and when it does, your XaaS provider might have 
problems as well. 
• With XaaS, there can be issues of internet reliability, resilience, provisioning and 
managing the infrastructure resources.
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Performance issues
• As XaaS becomes more popular, bandwidth, latency, data storage, and retrieval 
times can suffer. 
• If too many customers use the same resources, the system can slow down. 
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Complexity impacts
• Pushing technology to XaaS can relieve IT staff of day-
to-day operational headaches; however, if something 
does go wrong, it might be harder to troubleshoot.
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The future market for 
XaaS
• The combination of cloud computing and ubiquitous, high-bandwidth, global internet access 
provides a fertile environment for XaaS growth.
• Some organizations have been tentative to adopt XaaS because of security, compliance and 
business governance concerns. 
• However, service providers increasingly address these concerns, allowing organizations to 
bring additional workloads into the cloud.
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