Iaas Pros and Cons

Is IaaS a Good or Bad Deal?

Advantages

* Cost Effectiveness for the Provider - Because the IaaS provider has massive platforms segmented for each customer, the economies of scale are enormous, providing significant cost savings through efficiency. 

* Improves Reliability - because service providers have specialized workers that ensure nearly constant uptime and state-of-the-art security measures.

* Increased Productivity

* Low Financial Risk – You know in advance all you will have to pay, on the long-term, so no predictions, no real risk.

* Utility Service: IaaS follows a pay per use/pay-as-you-go subscription based model. Vendors will often allow their customers to have the availability of ready to go IaaS offerings with limited time for implementation and customization.

* Dynamic Elasticity: You don’t have to wait to buy a new server, install, configure then deploy it onto your network. The Iaas Provider does this for you in seconds & you can or expand your storage as required.

* Multiple Tenets: Iaas vendors allow customers to have multiple server instances and users accessing the same piece of infrastructure at the same time.

* Flexible access: users have accessible infrastructure from anywhere and any location and on any device.

* Green IT: IaaS vendors argue that centralised IT services and hardware sitting in a Cloud data centre are better for the environment due to better renewable energy supplies to data centres than can be achieved by the average company. Economies of scale provide lower costs and less need for IT hardware as well, which not good for hardware vendors is better for the environment

* Allows IT and whole company to Shift Focus – With the quick availability of IaaS services, infrastructure delivered as a service (ready to consume), it frees an organization to focus on its mission, leverage and focus their time and resources in bringing innovations in applications and...