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IaaS ≠ Virtualization

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Randy Bias

 

Just a brief note to highlight a fairly obvious misconception, so please excuse if I am preaching to the choir.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is not virtualization-on-demand.  I realize that there is a certain amount of terminology hijacking by marketers, but when you say ‘IaaS’, I don’t think ‘virtual servers on demand’, I think of ‘infrastructure on demand’, which includes: servers, storage (block and object), networking, DNS, and related.

Simply put:

Virtualization < IaaS

I know many of you are clear on this.  I’m just taking a strong stand on the poisoning or dilution of the definition of IaaS.

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