The Public Cloud: Infrastructure As A Service
People love to quibble over cloud computing definitions, so let’s lay this one out: This article’s about infrastructure as a service, where companies rent virtual servers as needed for a variety of uses. Here, we’re digging into gritty practicalities not often discussed, including pricing and contract rules.
Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud service is the best known example, but the market now bristles with competition. To help companies understand this emerging market, we gathered detailed data from 12 infrastructure-as-a-service providers on prices, services, contracts, platforms supported, and more.
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2 What’s In The Public Cloud
7 Detailed Data From 12 Vendors
About the Author
Andrew Conry-Murray is business editor at InformationWeek. He writes about information management and compliance issues. Andrew has covered information technology topics including security and network and information management for nine years, with Network Computing and Network Magazine before joining InformationWeek. He is a co-author of The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security.
