Moving to IaaS: An overview

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Charles McLellan.

Organisations seeking to exploit today’s highly virtualised, flexible and scalable ‘cloud’ IT infrastructure have a number of deployment options, depending on the level of ownership and control they wish to retain over the server, storage and networking resources involved, and the data processed by these IT resources.

The most conservative approach is to house and manage the IT infrastructure in your organisation’s own data centre, running whatever workloads are currently suitable for deployment on a private cloud platform. Established organisations will probably run such ‘cloud-ready’ workloads alongside existing enterprise applications during a period of experimentation and transition, as they dip their toes into the world of private cloud computing…

Many companies — startups and small businesses, for example — won’t want the expense and hassle of running their own data centre. One solution is to house your servers, storage and networking gear in a colocation facility, but manage them (largely remotely) yourself. Alternatively you can retain your on-premises data centre and outsource its management to a service provider. A popular solution is the managed private cloud, in which both the physical infrastructure and its management are outsourced, leaving you to specify how the virtualised resources are deployed…

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