[CAnet - news] Infrastructure as a web service - IaaS

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[Web services and SOA are a much broader applicability beyond linking
software systems together.  These architectures are now being used to
represent physical devices as web services as well. A good example of
infrastructure as a web service is in the telecommunications environment
where tools like UCLP expose very telecommunications element and service
(including management and control plane elements) and virtualize them as a
web service.  This allows end users to compose or orchestrate their own
network solutions linking together servers, network links, instruments,
control plane knobs and storage devices into a sophisticated articulate
private network.  Some excerpts from SOA systems  --BSA]

Agria Network Infrastructure Web Services
http://www.inocybe.ca/

http://soa.sys-con.com/read/439721_1.htm


The many crucial jobs IT performs for a company are hard enough -
provisioning employees and keeping their workstations up and running;
protecting data to meet the stringent requirements imposed by
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, and other regulations; managing data recovery
and business continuity; and so on. The risk of operating with inadequate
resources or burning unnecessarily through corporate funds are unwelcome
addenda to the IT department's burden.

Now imagine a world where you can scale your IT capacity up or down on
command without any capital expenditure. 

This world exists. It's enabled by a new business concept based on
virtualizing the IT environment and is called Infrastructure as a Service.
IaaS extends the remote hosting concept of Software as a Service (SaaS) to
hardware.

The interest in IaaS can be attributed to significant increases in
IT-enabled business models such as e-commerce, Web 2.0 and SaaS, which drive
demand, and by advances in technology that enable it, including
virtualization, utility computing, and data center automation.



Infrastructure as a Service is generally delivered in addition to a utility
computing platform. As long as you have a platform like VMware for
virtualization, you look identical to your infrastructure provider. So, if
you wanted to push 30 machines or 50 machines out of your data center for 90
days, you could easily bring them back because you're both running the same
virtual platform.



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