IaaS – Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a virtualised platform environment) as a service.

Rather than purchasing servers, software, data center space or network equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service. The service is typically billed on a utility computing basis and amount of resources consumed (and therefore the cost) will typically reflect the level of activity.

Vendor examples : Rackspace, Sungard, CloudScaling, Storage as a Service is a subset eg Amazon S3

This video boils down a section of Cloud Computing, that of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Hosting in a way that everyone can understand!

Script by Michael Sheehan blog: http://hightechdad.com  Animation / illustration by Tim Wayne blog: http://timmy.vox.com  Video production http://www.commoncraft.com

Building an Infrastructure Cloud Whitepaper

Building an infrastructure cloud can be challenging at scale; however, there are many lessons to be learned from the early cloud pioneers, like the folks on the Cloudscaling team. Check out their white paper which provides a framework for discussing infrastructure clouds and includes examples of tradeoffs in architecture, and other areas of consideration  iaas-building-guide-v1 . For more details visit CloudScaling.com .