In the digital age of modern times, almost everything is available online. You can buy her dresses, order a smartphone or even her furniture. Similarly, as you may know, the Internet also helps you speed up your business, and this is where the global ‘cloud’ comes into play. Today, cloud computing is responsible for more services being delivered over the web rather than local or on-site platforms. In particular, Everything As A Service or XAAS is a collective term used to address all of these types of cloud-based services. Mainly, it includes:
- Software as a service or SaaS: Assigns the task of managing and implementing software to external service providers. Examples of SaaS apps include Salesforce, Google Apps, Dropbox, and more.
- Platform as a service or PaaS: Built on virtualization technology, it provides a platform for software development and deployment. Common examples include Google App Engine, Heroku, and Red Hat’s OpenShift.
- Infrastructure as a service or IaaS: Enables automated development and deployment of PaaS, SaaS, and web-scale applications. Featured IAAS vendors include Softlayer, Navisite, Exoscale, CompuNext, etc.
In addition, it also includes a bunch of other services like:
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a service
- Desktop as a Service
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Medical care as a service
- Storage as a service
- Marketing as a Service
How could XaaS transform businesses?
The ‘Everything as a concept’ is not just a business plan or a method of generating income, it is in fact the operational and strategic model of the core modernization. He has helped big corporate houses like General Electric and Amazon look for bold new opportunities beyond their traditional models of doing business.
Not just individuals or corporate people, governments around the world are also benefiting from this recent technological disruption. Obviously, the United States government is no different. While Amazon has expanded its internal services to customers, GE is slowly transforming itself from a manufacturer to a retailer of goods. In fact, GE’s transformation plan places a heavy emphasis on “everything defined by software” and “data as a revenue driver.” Therefore, both of them have monetized their strategies to make way for better business results with the help of XaaS.
How could you help the US government?
The United States is among the top nations to embrace technological innovations with open arms. It has also embraced XaaS, which is evident from its collaboration with various IT organizations to enhance the performance of their departments. For example, the AWS Cloud is eager to provide cost-effective and scalable solutions to the US federal government. This would help the latter enable the Department of Defense and various civilian agencies to reduce costs, ensure efficient processes, and enhance innovations.
Multiple cloud services
The company also provides the services of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region (AWS Region) to meet the specific regulatory requirements of US government agencies in conjunction with educational entities and various other partners, as well as customers.
XaaS cloud infrastructure is also useful for the government to store criminal justice information. Currently, AWS has also been participating in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which provides a standard approach for authorization, security assessment, and persistent monitoring of cloud products and services.
Instead of buying licensed software, the government could use various XaaS components, such as SaaS, to maintain attendance records, improve payroll system, improve human resource management, etc.
ALEN
American Law Enforcement Network is already a 100% cloud-based software provider. It enables court officers and staff to use “off-the-shelf” technologies, such as Internet web browsers, to access its robust, proprietary and secure solutions from any location. This is a welcome reprieve from traditional methods where law enforcement agencies had to buy, build, and maintain their own IT solutions. Law firms are rushing to switch to this affordable, secure, and flexible alternative to traditional software.
health.gov
Once again, AWS has been instrumental in providing its cloud services to the US government, to be precise, the US Department of Health and Human Services. The cloud service provider company helped the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a highly scalable and stable feature set for their websites. These cloud computing features are capable of handling thousands of users simultaneously during peak insurance underwriting periods.
Concisely, the Everything as a Service model deals with providers that have the ability to deliver rich services to the end user. It deviates from previous models dealing with products. His contribution to the sophistication of the US government has also been immense, with the help of leading IT companies. However, there is still plenty of room for the government to fully transform to XaaS. I hope you take advantage of the best of technological innovations.
