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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud service model that gives you access to virtualized infrastructure components comprising computing, network, and storage services. This is very similar to hosting your own VMware or Hyper-V virtualized platforms, where you deploy servers, attach storage volumes, and configure network connectivity services. However, the primary difference is that you do not have access to the underlying hypervisor platform with cloud-hosted IaaS solutions. IaaS offerings give the greatest amount of control over how the virtual components of your infrastructure are configured and also require you to take responsibility for managing, maintaining, and enforcing security measures for those components.
Companies who wish to move their entire suite of applications to the cloud would normally carry out a series of migration projects over time. During this migration phase, connectivity between the on-premises environment and the...
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