lundi 2 septembre 2013

Find the ideal provider of IaaS

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The beauty of the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is its ability to provide the resources to companies that need them. This gives data center managers the option of not having to spend hard dollars of resources which could be inactive from 80 percent of the time in the same time that processing and storage of raw materials that are available when they are needed.

But there are inherent risks in this thought — starting with the fact that IaaS "commercial product" is not as clearcuts as collecting whatever happens to be especially in a week.

That is selected for their IaaS services issues - and the decision that you should consider more than price. Here are six items that should be on your "Checklist" IaaS when go seeking an IaaS provider:

Knowledge of your industry

When you are looking for a provider of IaaS, you are asking for that provider to assume some of his works IT. It is its advantage if the provider can offer expertise in the industry that includes compliance with regulatory, safety and other requirements of governance that should meet your applications and data.

Technical competence and advisory capacity

Minimally you should expect your provider's IaaS overcome or at least minimally meeting (if your staff is strong) standards of technical excellence you expect from your own data center. The best suppliers of IaaS do so. They also offer advisory services that can assist in the planning of infrastructure.

An ecosystem of hardware and software business partners

Major operations of IaaS will never be alone. They have a network of business partners who are with them, starting with their hardware and software vendors. Take the time to find "depth" these relationships outside and what SLAs for performance of service between these parties. When service issues arise (and they will), want to know that they are the best people with more knowledge about them.

Direct control of the data center

Search for IaaS providers who have their own data centers. When the IaaS providers lease facilities from the center of data of third parties, obligations and responsibilities for the operation of the service and cloudy interruptions - and you are caught in the middle.

Scalable and flexible contracts

The attraction of IaaS is its ability to upward or downward scale resources to meet the needs of your organization. This same flexibility should be reflected in your contract with a provider of IaaS. Monthly subscription (and the amount of contracted monthly resources) must be clearly understood by all parties enter into an agreement. Just as rising costs (or decrease) based to scale resources up or down. It should also be easier for your company to exit the IaaS contract as it is to enter it. To facilitate this, the seller of IaaS must yield SLAs for input output service IaaS and perfect.

Excellent customer service

Once you're on board with a provider of IaaS, excellent service the customer becomes the most important element of their daily relationship. There is no way that you absolutely know customer service will be until you are a customer - but sites can do a thing is to make detailed customer reference checks a more central part of your suppliers interview process. A seller of IaaS will typically provide you with a list of references who know will give you good reviews.  On the other hand, sites should ask the prospective seller a total list of customers that you can choose the site. In this way, keep a better chance of obtaining a full view of the performance of the supplier. Other questions for the customer-oriented vendor are: 1) what is the average length of their relationships with the client (i.e., how much more time a customer has been with a vendor, this is more indicative of continuous return of value to the customer); and if the seller has lost a customer.

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