What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

In essence this is a generic way of describing the complete cloud hosting service. It is the provision of all IT infrastructure as a service by a third party to the user. In other words it is the full outsourcing of an IT system.

Cloud hosting has made IaaS popular in the server world. It offers many enticing benefits. There are the standard advantages to the cloud hosting set-up, namely flexibility, scalability, reliability and value. Then, IaaS also provides fully outsourced expert maintenance and monitoring, no technology outlay for the user and priceless peace of mind.

IaaS means efficiency

Infrastructure as a Service means a high level of automation and virtualisation and low labour requirements. It represents highly intelligent processing and all of this translates to fantastic performance efficiencies and attractive financial margins.

IaaS benefits at a glance

• No Infrastructure Requirement
• Scalable
• Patching & Upgrades with No Downtime
• Highly Available
• Backups
• Cost effective
• 24x7x365
• environmental
• Secure