Are you spending too much on IaaS? (Part 1 of 2) IaaS is a rapidly growing methodology in cloud technology. It is a self-service model for accessing, monitoring and managing remote data center infrastructure. Instead of buying hardware, organizations and enterprises can purchase IaaS, which is based on consumption. With IaaS, users can gain instant productivity and increased capacity. Even though IaaS provides several benefits, businesses have little visibility into or control over their cloud solutions’ true cost.

As organizations are making more use of public cloud IaaS, it must have the ability to monitor, manage and optimize the use of IaaS services in a cost-effective manner. Business…

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5 questions you must answer before choosing your IaaS cloud strategy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has enabled organizations to rent IT infrastructure from a service provider rather than purchasing the technology and hosting it internally. IaaS cloud has moved ahead of the general cost-benefit upsides and has allowed organizations to develop and host highly voluminous consumer-facing and B2B content.

According to Gartner, using IaaS cloud, we can also develop enterprise applications, enable disaster recovery and create high-performance computation solutions. source: www.blogs.msdn.microsoft.com Implementing IaaS cloud can be a challenging task….

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5 benefits of Cloud IaaS Cloud infrastructure has enabled business units, teams and individuals to make IT buying decisions outside the control of the IT department. But it is also bringing in new business risks. Business leaders should hence be informed clearly about the benefits of cloud so that they can make better decisions.

The last thing an organization leader wants to worry about when improving processes is whether the infrastructure can keep up with the need to innovate and respond to competitive pressures….

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Why do businesses prefer Public Cloud IaaS?  Only 2% of all virtual machines (VMs) were delivered through public cloud providers in 2009 and 2010. By 2011, about 3% of all VMs were running within public IaaS cloud providers. The number of VMs in public cloud have grown by a factor of nearly twenty since then.

Although it is not unusual for large chunks of VM capacity that is being paid for to go unused or underutilized, the public cloud IaaS is far larger now than…

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Evaluating existing systems for Cloud IaaS  More and more enterprises today have begun to rely on cloud providers for hosting mission-critical applications. This has raised the stakes for selecting the right cloud service. We discuss here a few key factors for evaluating cloud IaaS services.

The cloud computing market is exploding with possibilities as new players emerge and take the market forward with them. Hence, organizations need to evaluate their existing cloud IaaS systems to…

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