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PaaS vs SaaS vs IaaS vs NaaS: What's the Difference?

PaaS vs SaaS vs IaaS vs NaaS: What's the Difference?

With a range of network and computing capabilities now offered via the cloud, it can be tricky to keep up. We explain the four core ‘as a service’ offerings and their use cases.

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SaaS, AI, and Connectivity in the Second Wave of Cloud

SaaS, AI, and Connectivity in the Second Wave of Cloud

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and AI are evolving and stimulating innovation for cloud consumers. In order to capture the momentum of new technologies, organizations require an optimized and cohesive interconnection and data centre infrastructure solution. Today’s SaaS Applications SaaS has evolved to solve a broader set of business issues, just as organizations have become more entrenched in how they can support customer needs. The SaaS applications of yesterday were not the complex layered applications we regularly use today; the likes of Microsoft Office 365, Google’s G Suite, and Dropbox have advanced far beyond basic web pages. This added complexity, along with the heavier throughput associated with today’s SaaS applications, has driven the need for reduced latency and increased performance at the network layer to ensure business critical applications work to their peak abilities. Best-effort public internet access is not architected for guaranteed or consistent performance, but many organizations have to use it due to lack of access or knowledge on how to access SaaS applications via private connections. Inconsistent network performance degrades the user experience, productivity, and impacts revenue. Security and reliability are top-of-mind when deploying critical workloads and accessing applications housed in public cloud infrastructure. There are also major concerns around the ease of troubleshooting issues quickly; if a CTO is pushing data to numerous SaaS applications and their network connection is unreliable, or even has inconsistent round-trip latency, the consequences for their organization could be huge. As a result, there is an increased demand for a different way for organizations to connect with, utilize, and consume their overall cloud portfolio.

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