New Delhi, Dec. 2 -- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a much misunderstood but still overused cloud term. It does not help that different technology/cloud vendors define it differently. There are also mini variants of PaaS like application PaaS (managed compute services for hosting applications); integration PaaS (for providing integration services between disparate applications and systems); communication PaaS (for providing communications services like voice, SMS, email etc.) and many others. Many core services such as managed databases (DBaaS) are also sometimes referred to as a kind of PaaS. Effectively every service, API etc. that reduces the burden of infrastructure management or provides an easy to use abstraction over repetitive ta...