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A lot of terminology gets thrown around whenever someone refers to cloud computing and hosting. Its the same with print management in the cloud. Unexplained jargon doesnt help to fight against describing the cloud as this mystical floating field of data. ecoprintQ and PaperCut would like to help answer your cloud based questions.

If youre looking into migrating from on-premise printing to cloud-based print management (either public, private, or hybrid, which well get to soon), youve come across this knot of terminology.

So, today were looking at the three different types of X-as-a-Service in the cloud and how they relate to print management.

What are the three types of (Anything-as-a-Service) in the cloud?

In effect, each one of these can be thought of as a different layer of an abstraction.

IaaS is putting the hardware in the cloud; you maintain full control of the operating system (e.g. Windows or Linux), how its configured, and the applications that run on top.

PaaS in the cloud offers more than just hardware, its hosting higher-level components in the cloud such as a hosted database.

SaaS usually builds on top of PaaS to build an end-to-end solution ready to use, like Office365 or GSuite.

Heres a quick cheat sheet of each XaaS:

IaaS = infrastructure in the cloud

PaaS = infrastructure for development in the cloud

SaaS = software in the cloud

How does XaaS relate to print management in the cloud?

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

IaaS was really one of the first areas of cloud computing adopted by many companies. Today a good example is moving existing servers into Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.

The advantages mean you can run the same applications and options without worrying about the underlying infrastructure, such as the hardware, the power supply, the raid controller, and so forth.

Over the last decade, more and more of our PaperCut MF customers have been moving their instances into IaaS environments.

IaaS will continue to be a logical and popular first step for many organizations on the path to print management in the cloud.

To read more about the various services in the cloud go to https://www.ecoprintq.com/blog/index.php/2021/07/02/understanding-x-as-a-service-and-print-management-in-the-cloud/

If youd like to find out more about PaperCut and its role in cloud based solutions, give us a call at 1-800-236-8499 or email us at sales@ecoprintq.com. ecoprintQ is committed to delivering excellent service to every customer, providing support at each phase of an opportunity, and promoting solutions at every level. As a result, ecoprintQ is one of the worlds top Authorized Solution Centers.

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