As the name suggests, Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is raw computing resources (CPU, stoage etc.) delivered online in the form of virtual server instances that can be turned on and off within minutes at the beck and call of the enterprise customer. No provisioning, no datacenter overheads, no playing catch-up with h/w technology and most importantly - no paying for what you don’t need. In days where CapEx is a forbidden word, this feels like the CIOs dream come true. The three largest cloud service providers today are Amazon, Microsoft and Google closely followed by the IBM, Cisco, Rackspace hosting, GoGrid etc. in the IaaS space.
Here is a CIO Magazine interview with the David Smith, CIO and CTO at Fujitsu with his views on IaaS:
Here is a CIO Magazine interview with the David Smith, CIO and CTO at Fujitsu with his views on IaaS:
