Finding the ideal IaaS provider

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Mary Shacklett.

The beauty of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is its ability to provide IT resources to companies as they need them. This gives data center managers the option of not having to spend hard dollars for resources that might stand idle 80 percent of the time at the same time that it turns processing and storage into commodities that can be ordered whenever they’re needed.

But there are inherent risks in this thinking—beginning with the fact that IaaS “commodity shopping” is not as clearcut as picking up whatever happens to be on special in a given week. Who you select for your IaaS services matters—and the decision you make should consider more than price. Here are six items that should be on your IaaS “checklist” when you go looking for an IaaS provider:…

Knowledge of your industry

When you seek an IaaS provider, you are asking that provider to assume some of your IT work. It’s to your advantage if the provider can offer expertise in your industry that includes compliance with regulatory, security and other governance requirements that your applications and data must conform to…

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