Infrastructure as a Service Could Be the Answer to your IT Needs

Hello and welcome to Chesapeake Digital Technology´s blog. We’re an information technology firm in Maryland. We provide 2 services, Internet Marketing / SEO and Technical Support to small and medium business.

Paying for information technology hardware and software can be costly. Okay, it is costly. Getting your business the tech it needs to thrive in today’s economy is necessary to success. However, odds are you don’t have the budget for several servers, a full time IT guy/gal, and all the other things that go along with it. Enter, Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas).

IaaS allows for companies to outsource their need for technology to bigger companies. It’s a lot like renting, except there is rarely physical hardware involved on the client’s end. IaaS uses Cloud Computing methods to connect the client, you, with a networking infrastructure somewhere else. That’s right, it uses the Internet.

Now, the benefits here are obvious. You get virtual machines that behave like physical machines, only for a fraction of the cost and sometimes, with little or no software maintenance required. That’s a big perk. You get reliable service combined with systems that you only pay for when you use them. Savings = huge. However, there are also downsides.

Okay, well I say downside(s), but the biggest one you have to worry about is availability. While the company you’re contracting is certainly going to guarantee you almost non-stop access, what you need to worry about is your own Internet access. The fact of the matter is that if the Internet connection goes down between your home/office/moonbase and theirs, you are without your precious service.

All in all, you need to examine what works best for your company. If you can’t afford to upgrade your tech right now, maybe consider IaaS as a good stopgap. Some of the major cloud computing service providers include Amazon, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Skytap

-Josh

CDTeK

Tags: Cloud Computing, networking, Utilities

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