Sponsored First came the cloud and then, in its wake, a small snowstorm of initialisms that explained how it was going be offered to love-struck customers as services that could be paid for without stressing the capital budget. The famous examples are PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service, SaaS (Software as a Service) but there are plenty of others if you dive deeper.
These each describe how the cloud turns everything into a button press built on automation, ease of use, and the whole shebang that makes computing services an always-available utility that just works. But what’s not always as well explained is the hairy issue of how exactly all this clever service anchors complex underlying hardware resources and connectivity to the software that sits on top and around it.
Initially, the answer was cloud service tools backed by specialised co ..
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