What Is Infrastructure as a Service?

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lindsey Nelson.

Cloud computing is the trend that isn’t going away. As the world grows, so does our need for real time collaboration, sharing documents and storing data easily, as well as access to information from any device. Cloud computing can be delivered 1 of 3 ways: software, infastructure, and platform as a service. Last time we discussed the in’s and outs of who, what, and why’s of software as a service (SaaS), now we’re going to cover infrastructure as a service.

What is Infrastructure as a Service?

Defined by SearchCloudComputing, infrastructure as a service is a “model in which an organization outsources the equipment used to support operations, including storage, hardware, servers and networking components.”…

So what does that actually mean? Think of it this way. An IaaS provider is like your utilities company. All you have at home are the plugs in the wall and a breaker box, but you don’t actually make your own electricity. The utilities company, or the infrastructure as a Sservice providers, house and maintain the hardware required to give you power. And just like the utilities company, at the end of a determined time period you, the user, owe them money for what you’ve used…

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