Everything as a service

Question 1

Idea: you shouldn’t have to worry about building your own network or your own servers, you just pay someone else to provide you with that service

Answer 1

Iaas, infrastructure as a service, cloud

Question 2

a subset of cloud computing where platform is provided for customers to run their services. an execution engine is provided for whatever software someone wants to run. a web developer writing the new application doesn’t need an entire server complete with a complex file system dedicated resources and other things, they just need an environment that their web app can run in.

Answer 2

platform as a service

Question 3

a way of licensing the use of software to others while keeping that software essentially hosted and managed. email, gmail. you’re trusting another company to handle just about everything on the software.

Answer 3

software as a service

Question 4

if you can run something in a browser, what is it a prime candidate for

Answer 4

SaaS

Question 5

what can you find under a subscription based software as a service model?

Answer 5

word processors, graphic design programs, human resource management solutions