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Linode

Linode helps users simplify cloud infrastructure with Linux virtual machines and tools to develop, deploy, and scale applications. Linode aims to make virtual computing more accessible, affordable, and simple. The vendor states the Linode infrastructure-as-a-service platform is…

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IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Cloud Object Storage is an IBM Cloud product in the endpoint backup and IaaS categories. It is commonly used for data archiving and backup, for web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.

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IBM Power Virtual Server

IBM presents their Power Systems Virtual Server as a scalable, cost-effective way to run IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux workloads​.

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

The Amazon Elastic Transcoder from AWS is a cloud-based media transcoding service available to AWS users which is priced on the volume of media transcoded by minute and the media's resolution. The service is scalable and anticipates transcoding of very large files or high volumes…

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Media Temple IaaS Cloud

Media Temple in Culver City, California offers managed hosting services. Users can choose from managed services for AWS, self-managed VPS, managed VPS, grid-shared hosting, and managed hosting optimized for WordPress.

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Hostway (Ntirety)

Hostway headquartered in Austin provides what they describe as 24/7/365 support and cost-effective, secure, multi-tenant, and dedicated hosting environments for SMBs and large enterprises. Hostway and HOSTING merged in January 2019 to grow their managed cloud services platforms.…

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Amazon Deep Learning AMIs

AMIs are Amazon Machine Images, virtual appliance deployed on EC2. The AWS Deep Learning AMIs provide machine learning practitioners and researchers with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud, at scale. Users can launch Amazon EC2 instances pre-installed…

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OVHcloud Public Cloud

OVHcloud Public Cloud offers users a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. OVH states their infrastructure is set up in a simple way to enable businesses to harness the flexibility of on-demand resources to scale up from small projects to large-…

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Huawei Cloud Network Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) from Huawei Cloud enables users to create a secure, private, and isolated virtual network. The user can customize IP address ranges, subnets, security groups, and bandwidths, and assign Elastic IP (EIP) addresses.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network. Users have control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of one's IP address range, creation…

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Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

NaviSite boasts flexible and scalable managed services that provide 24x7x365 monitoring and support for any environment a business selects—whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Their managed infrastructure services include managed infrastructure and hosting, data center…

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SCloud ULightHost

ULightHost is a lightweight cloud server product that provides convenient and efficient cloud construction services for small and medium-sized enterprises and developers. Presented as simpler and easier to use than ordinary cloud servers, it sells cloud resources as a whole in the…

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vmgen

vmgen is a cloud-computing IaaS platform for developers and businesses. Vmgen users can create virtual machines in 28 data centers located around the World. The vendor states that data centers meet the requirements of the main security and compliance standards and have direct connections…

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SCloud UHost

SCloud UHost is a cloud computing service that allow users to spin up a host in 18 regions in the world of various Operating Systems (OS) to offer the following: Cloud Servers - Including virtual machines, dedicated servers, and bare metal servers.Cloud Storage - Including object…

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LightEdge

LightEdge Services, headquartered in Des Moines, offers a suite of colocation and infrastructural services with support including security consulting, compliance consulting (e.g. HIPAA), and disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for users of its colocation services.

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Hitachi Enterprise Cloud

Hitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, an infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Hitachi provides a full portfolio of integrated hardware, software and enablement services designed to bring a pre-engineered level of efficiency and predictability to creating a cloud platform.…

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Lumen Edge Private Cloud

Lumen Private Edge Cloud (replacing the former CenturyLink® Private Cloud) is a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solution that brings VMware’s vSphere®, vSAN™ and NSX® into a natively integrated stack, delivering enterprise grade, globally available hyper-converged-infrastructure…

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Lumen Public Cloud (discontinued)

Lumen Public Cloud is a set of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS and cloud management tools partially based on technology acquired from the tech company Tier 3 in 2013. The service is not available to new customers.

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IBM Managed Services for SAP Applications

IBM offers managed services for migrating SAP applications to Microsoft Azure and managing workloads.

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OVH Dedicated Servers

OVH offers a wide range of dedicated servers for hosting a wide variety of sites or apps, including ecommerce sites, managing a private network, enterprise web application, DDoS protected gaming servers, and more.

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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services used to build apps or take advantage of cloud infrastructural services, achieve legacy infrastructure modernization, or manage enterprise data and analytic needs.

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Skytap

Traditional Applications, Now in the CloudSkytap helps users get business-critical applications out of the data center and into the cloud. The user can run on-premises IBM Power and x86 workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. With Skytap, there is no need…

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UpCloud

UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company from Finland boasting fast cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation via the company's private cloud…

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Azure VMware Solution

Azure VMware Solution enables users to run VMware workloads natively on Azure. The user can move VMware-based workloads from the datacenter to Azure and integrate a VMware environment with Azure. This enables users to continue managing existing environments with the same VMware tools…

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AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

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Upstash
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Upstash is presented as Serverless Data for Redis and Kafka, with per-request-pricing users only pay what is used. Built-in REST API allows users to produce and consume Kafka topics from anywhere. And the Upstash REST API enables access from Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Compute@…

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DigitalOcean Container Registry

DigitalOcean's Container Registry is a service that lets users store and manage private container images. The registry lets users store containers for rapid deployment to DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and build container images on any machine, and push them to DigitalOcean Container Registry…

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What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Solutions?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software is a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud. It provides businesses with a platform on which software can be developed and deployed. IaaS platforms handle the complexity around operating systems and servers and leaves application developers free to concentrate on the business requirements of the software.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is similar to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), in that it provides services to consumers over the Internet. However, out of the three offerings, IaaS takes care of the essentials, allowing users to manage the rest.

IaaS operates at a very fundamental level, providing the basic building blocks for cloud services. IaaS can be thought of as the provisioning of basic cloud infrastructures like virtualized servers, storage, and networking in an on-demand model. This on-demand model can easily scale up and down to meet demand. Instead of having to spend capital resources on hardware and infrastructure, rapidly scalable and secure infrastructure components are accessible over the Internet. These resources and paid for based on consumption, as in a utility model like electricity or water.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Features & Capabilities

  • Uptime percentage offered in SLA
  • Ease of scaling up or down in response to consumer needs
  • Administration automation for deploying and managing virtual desktops and servers
  • Elastic load balancing whereby resources are balanced and distributed automatically across multiple virtual computers
  • Preconfigured templates for virtual machines
  • Monitoring tools providing alerts when problems are detected
  • Customized machine images
  • Range of operating systems available as preconfigured images
  • Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES

Infrastructure as a Service Software Comparison

When considering different IaaS platforms, consider the following aspects of each product offering.

  1. Scalability: IaaS platforms are cloud-based, meaning they provide easier scalability compared to on-premises options. Despite this, most providers have a maximum and minimum threshold that limits scaling up and down. Scalability should be considered by organizations that need flexibility in how easily they can scale up and down.
  2. Support: IaaS issues or network downtime can result in a significant loss of time for users. A responsive support team is key for organizations that can’t afford to have significant IaaS downtime. Most, but not all IaaS providers offer 24/7 support. It is important to consider an organization’s support needs as well as their preferred support medium (email, phone, etc) when selecting an IaaS platform.
  3. Compatibility: Some organizations use both IaaS and PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions. Some IaaS solutions include PaaS features or integrate with PaaS solutions from the same vendor, while others may even integrate with PaaS solutions from different vendors. Organizations planning on integrating IaaS solutions with other software should consider compatibility.

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Pricing

Pricing models vary quite a bit, but the basic structure is usually price per user per month, with different tiers based on differing factors such as the number of custom app objects, or number of servers. Some vendors provide a free tier, but per user pricing can from as little as $50 per month per user to $750 per user per month or more, depending on platform capabilities. If your organization is currently managing their own on-premise infrastructure, it's a good idea to calculate the current costs associated with doing so when comparing switching to IaaS. Typically, IaaS platforms will be a lower cost alternative.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the core IaaS features that buyers should expect?

IaaS platforms often include specialized features, but the bare essentials that buyers should expect are cloud deployment, virtual machines with customized templates, and a variety of supported operating systems.

What are the best IaaS software options?

Are there any open source or free IaaS platforms?

There are several open source IaaS platforms that provide their entire source code for free. Businesses with skilled developers can implement this code free of charge, though they may still have to pay for cloud hosting.

Do IaaS platforms integrate with PaaS platforms or SaaS software?

IaaS platforms typically offer a suite of integrations, or include an API developers can use to build connectors. Businesses considering purchasing an IaaS should consider what integrations they need and select an IaaS option that supports them out of the box.