Infrastructure Services

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Solutions for your business

Infrastructure as a service, IaaS, is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. IaaS has a cloud provider that hosts the infrastructure components traditionally present in an on-premises data center, This includes servers, storage, and networking hardware, as well as the virtualization or hypervisor layer. Your IaaS provider should supply a range of services to accompany those infrastructure components. These include detailed billing, monitoring, log access, security, load balancing, and clustering, as well as storage resiliency, such as backup, replication, and recovery. These services are usually policy-driven, enabling Iaas users to implement greater levels of automation and orchestration for important infrastructure tasks.

IaaS customers access resources and services through a wide area network (WAN), such as the internet, and can use the cloud provider’s services to install the remaining elements of an application stack. Customers can use the provider’s services to track costs, monitor performance, balance network traffic, troubleshoot application issues, manage disaster recovery and more. Any cloud computing model requires the participation of a provider, usually a third-party organization that specializes in selling IaaS.

IaaS is chosen by businesses because it is often easier, faster and more cost-efficient to operate a workload without having to buy, manage and support the underlying infrastructure. IaaS is an effective model for workloads that are temporary, experimental or that change unexpectedly.

In general, IaaS customers pay on a per-use basis, typically by the hour, week or month. Some IaaS providers also charge customers based on the amount of virtual machine space they use. This pay-as-you-go model eliminates the capital expense of deploying in-house hardware and software.

To find out more about IaaS and what Comportz offers, contact us today!