Cloud Terminology

What would we do without acronyms, those little splashes of letters that substitute for a series of words? Well, we might find we’d have to develop a new word to describe what happens when your mind gets tongue-tied from having to decipher the same string of words repetitively. After all, SaaS, once you know it stands for software-as-a-service, is much easier to read, and to say, than its long form counterpart.

With cloud computing’s rise, people have come to question just how some of the new acronyms relate to old ones. One place that’s evident is the comparison between ASP, application service provider, and SaaS. Aren’t they the same thing? Not really. According to Tech Target, an ASP makes a customer-specific application available to a specific client, often through an online interface such as a browser. SaaS makes an internet-specific application available to many users.

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