Cloud Computing

Lecture_7
Why we need IAAS:

It allows even small businesses to manage systems

from anywhere, increasing or decreasing computing
power and infrastructure as they're needed.

Moving a business becomes much easier when IAAS

— rather than traditional hardware infrastructure —
provides the computing backbone.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS):

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides access to fundamental

resources such as physical machines, virtual machines, virtual
storage, etc. Apart from these resources, the IaaS also offers:

Virtual Virtual local

Load Software
machine disk area network IP addresses
balancers bundles
storage VLANs
IAAS Cont.

All of the above resources are made available to end user via server
virtualization. Moreover, these resources are accessed by the
customers as if they own them.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the delivery of computer
infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization environment) as a
service.
IaaS leverages significant technology, services, and data center
investments to deliver IT as a service to customers.
Unlike traditional outsourcing, which requires extensive due diligence,
negotiations ad infinitum, and complex, lengthy contract vehicles, IaaS
is centered around a model of service delivery that provisions a
predefined, standardized infrastructure specifically optimized for the
customer’s applications.
IAAS Cont.

IaaS providers manage the transition and hosting of selected

applications on their infrastructure.
Customers maintain ownership and management of their
application(s) while off-loading hosting operations and
infrastructure management to the IaaS provider.
Rather than purchasing data center space, servers, software,
network equipment, etc., IaaS customers essentially rent
those resources as a fully outsourced service
Provider-owned implementations typically include the
following layered components:
Computer hardware (typically set up as a
grid for massive horizontal scalability)

Computer network (including routers,

firewalls, load balancing,etc.)

Internet connectivity

Platform virtualization environment for

running client-specified virtual machines

Service-level agreements

Utility computing billing

Characteristics:

Here are the characteristics of IaaS service model:

Virtual machines
Virtual machines with pre-installed On-demand
with pre-installed operating systems availability of
software. such as Windows, resources.
Linux, and Solaris.

Allows to store The computing

copies of particular resources can be
data at different easily scaled up and
locations. down.
Benefits:

• IaaS allows the cloud provider to freely locate the infrastructure

over the Internet in a cost-effective manner. Some of the key
benefits of IaaS are listed below:

Full control of the

Flexible and Portability,
computing
efficient renting interoperability
resources through
of computer with legacy
administrative
hardware. applications.
access to VMs.
 Ready access to a
preconfigured
environment that is
generally ITIL-based Secured, “sand-
(The Information boxed” (protected and
Use of the latest
Technology insulated) computing
technology for
Infrastructure Library platforms that are
infrastructure
[ITIL] is a customized usually security
equipment
framework of best monitored for
practices designed to breaches
promote quality
computing services in
the IT sector.)
 Lower costs
Reduced Reduced
that allow
risk by Ability to time, cost,
expensing
having off- manage and
service
site service- complexity
costs
resources demand in adding
instead of
maintained peaks and new
making
by third valleys features or
capital
parties capabilities
investments
Issues:
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Reference:

• http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cloud_computing/cloud_computin
g_infrastructure_as_a_service.htm