Sometimes it seems like the IT industry was the inventor of the acronym, with a new one getting created every two minutes.\u00a0 Enter Cloud Computing and a host of new and fun abbreviations that can get confused or switched around.<\/p>\n
Adron Hall offers a simple run-down<\/a> (and introduction for some) on three important acronyms in Cloud Computing that are used to represent three general areas in the Cloud:<\/p>\n Software as a Service (SaaS):<\/strong> Perhaps the most commonly heard and understood of the three, SaaS is a service that is provided by any sort of entity \u2013 from a small group up to a government \u2013 that provides software to the client.\u00a0 That software could be delivered in any way; internally or from a provider\/vendor entity to a user\/contracting entity.<\/p>\n Platform as a Service (PaaS):<\/strong> Somewhat less heard-of is the concept of delivering a platform wherein clients can develop software and re-deploy it either internally, over the Internet or via other Cloud environments.<\/p>\n Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):<\/strong> This entails an entity providing networking fundamentals such as load balancing, routing, virtualized OS hosting, content delivery networks, computer networking, backup, etc.<\/p>\n Interested in the Cloud?<\/em>\u00a0 Check out what GogoTraining offers for training in Cloud Computing<\/a>, ITIL training<\/a>, and project management training<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes it seems like the IT industry was the inventor of the acronym, with a new one getting created every two minutes.\u00a0 Enter Cloud Computing and a host of new and fun abbreviations that can get confused or switched around. Adron Hall offers a simple run-down (and introduction for some) on three important acronyms in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,11,81,35,37,58,56,63,70,71],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-cloud-computing","tag-itil","tag-network-management","tag-networking","tag-pmp","tag-project-management","tag-servers-and-networking","tag-virtual-infrastructure","tag-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}