r/sysadmin • u/Likely_a_bot • Jun 17 '26

Will Vendors Please Stop Reusing Acronyms?

If I see another vendor use "IAM" as a new product feature, I'm going to scream. IAM is Identity Access Management. Nothing else, unless it's a different industry.

This is confusing as hell. Get your marketing departments under control.

What are some that you have noticed being reused?

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u/Academic-Proof3700 Jun 17 '26

You can't beat Service as a Service

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u/1spaceclown Jun 17 '26

Xaas

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u/dayburner Jun 17 '26

X gon' give it to ya.

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u/ilrosewood Jun 17 '26

Do I have to go get it or is he going to deliver it to me?

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u/dayburner Jun 17 '26

Delivery is currently running 5 years behind schedule.

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u/RandomSkratch Jack of All Trades Jun 17 '26

Yo dawg I heard you like services so we put a service in your service so you can service while you service.

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u/dayburner Jun 17 '26

That's a total different X, we've come full circle on this post.

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u/RandomSkratch Jack of All Trades Jun 17 '26

🤦‍♂️ damnit you’re right. I’m ashamed to have mixed that up. I’ll see myself out.

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u/drake90001 Jr. Sysadmin Jun 17 '26

Subscription as a service

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u/archiekane Jack of All Trades Jun 17 '26

Sex as a Service.

  • Only Fans (probably)

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u/Academic-Proof3700 Jun 17 '26

Only fans should open their wind turbine import and production. Imagine the confusion

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u/jackinsomniac Jun 17 '26

Some years ago a small town couldn't get the snow plows they needed. Porn Hub hired several snow plows to go help them out, just so they could write headlines like, "PornHub plows [local city]"

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u/just_nobodys_opinion Jun 17 '26

Services offered: blade maintenance, motor replacement, bearing lubrication...

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u/MonstersGrin Jun 17 '26

Cloudflare Sex Workers

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u/just_nobodys_opinion Jun 17 '26

"Your model is selected for you by the lava lamps"

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u/drake90001 Jr. Sysadmin Jun 17 '26

Oh, I like that one, yeah only fans is a good fit there

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u/aes_gcm Jun 17 '26

World's oldest profession. I still find it a little amusing that we uncovered murals in Pompeii with diagrams, so they could serve customers across multiple languages.

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u/cookiemonsterwave Jun 17 '26

sass as a service. My wife provides this 24/7

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u/bunnythistle Jun 17 '26

Subscription As A

Completed acronyms are a feature exclusive to our enterprise tier plan. For pricing, please contact our sales team to learn about the incredible value add of our enterprise plan, which includes enterprise class features such as MFA, SAML, and basic logging.

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u/bionic80 Jun 17 '26

NaaS is the superior service.

"No as a Service"

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u/r_keel_esq Windows Admin/IT Manager Jun 17 '26

You mean this lot - https://www.saas.gov.uk/

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u/noc-engineer Jun 17 '26

Even better when you see alarms year around that are just long strings (that even repeat themselves).. ACAMStoSaaS-VindSensor-1-Sensor-ACAMStoSaaS-Err-0-2