Reduce IT complexity, obsolescence, and costs by moving your IT infrastructure to a virtual environment. Virtualizing your colocation, disaster recovery, and storage infrastructure in public, private or hybrid Clouds can make organizations more manageable, secure, and scalable at a much lower cost.
What is IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service where enterprises rent or lease servers for compute and storage in the cloud. Users can run any operating system or applications on the rented servers without the maintenance and operating costs of those servers. Other advantages of Infrastructure as a Service include giving customers access to servers in geographic locations close to their end users. IaaS automatically scales, both up and down, depending on demand and provides guaranteed service-level agreement (SLA) both in terms of uptime and performance. It eliminates the need to manually provision and manage physical servers in data centers.
Benefits
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can be more efficient for an enterprise than owning and managing its own infrastructure. New applications can be tested with an IaaS provider instead of acquiring the infrastructure for the test.
Other advantages of infrastructure-as-a-service include:
- Continuity and disaster recovery — Cloud service in different locations allows access to applications and data during a disaster or outage.
- Faster scaling— Quickly scale up and down resources according to application demand in all categories of cloud computing.
- Core focus— IaaS allows enterprises to focus more on core business activities instead of IT infrastructure and computing resources.
The implementation can be in a public, private or hybrid cloud setting. Customers use a graphical interface to change the infrastructure as needed. The infrastructure can also be accessed through an API key — so new servers are brought online as part of an automation when needed.