The infrastructure questions that need asking early
One of the big benefits of the outsourced, cloud-based infrastructure model is speed. There are several facets to this; performance clearly being among the most important. Another is speed of provisioning, which remains a major selling point for cloud, given that IT buyers can spin up new resources according to need and in near real time.
Take a manager responsible for buying infrastructure for a large enterprise, for example. When considering various providers, the criteria they apply might typically address factors such as price, compute capacity, storage, bandwidth, and geographic location. This is very helpful for narrowing down the choice, but it doesn’t show how easily the organization can deploy and operate the chosen environment.
Managing Director UK at Leaseweb.
At the same time, infrastructure procurement processes have become so quick and convenient that they are almost as frictionless as buying something from Amazon, and that’s where problems...
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