Infrastructure Strategy

Discuss how the emergence of Cloud Technologies has impacted investments in infrastructure and how strategies are changing at the enterprise level in relation to infrastructure as a service (IASS).

Include a question that responding students can reply to within your initial post(s).

Infrastructure Strategy

Discuss how the emergence of Cloud Technologies has impacted investments in infrastructure and how strategies are changing at the enterprise level in relation to infrastructure as a service (IASS).

Include a question that responding students can reply to within your initial post(s)

Cloud technology has undoubtedly changed how an organizations infrastructure should/could be looked at. Virtualization using Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a modern take keeping up with the advancement of technology.

In the theory of IaaS and PaaS an organization could be almost hardware-less, through the use of thirdparty hardware hosting. The third-party hosts offer a building full of hardware (servers, processers, and hypervisor) that is ideally local to the organization. Services through the third-party host can be done with a per-use basis meaning like a block of static IPs still using DHCP you can organize specified workstations to be only permitted a block of time for a typical low-level end-user (Violino,2017). This concept can not only save on various low-level expenses but on the larger expense of hardware maintenance, issuing, management, static workstations

While the question talks about enterprise level infrastructure, but the concept of IaaS doesn’t have to be solely for massive organizations it could be done for small start-ups and medium-sized companies. Which can help reduce the cost of hardware and the maintaining of said hardware. The CISSP information of “where should a server room be located” not the basement, not close to exits, bathroom, elevators, stairwells but in the center of the building with no more than two doors and a positive air flow established by HVAC and have Class C fire retardants for both security and control purposes. These specs

are standardized and will have an upfront high cost for the install which is avoidable through the use of third-party hosting.

Do yinz think small end companies doing telemarketing, case management, penetration testing, tax prep, or consulting need an onsite hardware infrastructure, or could/should they outsource their hardware infrastructure and programs to remote third-party hosts like Microsoft Azure or AWS?