Two well known hosting providers: Rackspace and Fasthosts have both had complete outages in the past week. We know because we have been contacted by many of their customers who have just realised the consequences...

Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) is another variant on the Everything-as-a-Service trend. It should be self-explanatory - businesses make the use of computer hardware on a pay-as-you-go solution…

I believe the term itself has been around since 2006 coined by Nick Carr, but has been somewhat over-shadowed by the well-known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) acronym.

If SaaS means ‘No Software' (simply receive the benefits of the software), then HaaS logically means ‘No Hardware' (just make use of hardware)…