Weekly Poll: Are the 3 Common Acronyms for Cloud Services Sufficient?

The three acronyms most commonly associated with cloud computing - SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS - are becoming so ubiquitous that it seems less important to spell them out in their entirety. (For the uninitiated, SaaS stands for Software-as-a-Service. PaaS is short for Platform-as-a-Service. And IaaS is Infrastructure-as-a-Service.)

But we've also heard mention lately of "games-as-a-service" and "data-as-a-service." And we've seen a number of new companies emerge who offer management solutions for those building cloud software services and deploying cloud infrastructure - Cloud.com, Nimsoft, and Abiquo for example.

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