Playing with the building blocks of the cloud: Getting IaaS right
September 4, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steve Ranger.
You could be forgiven for believing that cloud computing floats on nothing (apart, perhaps, from the hot air emited by overexcited vendors), but it actually has a very solid base, otherwise known as infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). IaaS comprises the most fundamental building blocks of any cloud service; the processing, storage and network infrastructure upon which all cloud applications are built.
In a typical IaaS scenario, the service provider delivers the server, storage and networking hardware and its virtualisation and then it’s up the customer to implement the operating systems, middleware and applications they require…
Because IaaS provides access to a large pool of standardised computing power on an on-demand, self-provisioned basis, developers are able to access more processing power or more storage for their applications within minutes, rather than having to wait weeks for new servers or discs to arrive. This should mean faster development and applications that aren’t constrained by a lack of computing resources…
Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/playing-with-the-building-blocks-of-the-cloud-getting-iaas-right-7000020122/