{"id":29543,"date":"2019-10-17T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=29543"},"modified":"2019-10-17T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:54:35","slug":"datacentrix-expert-on-what-organisations-should-be-looking-for-in-an-iaas-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/10\/17\/datacentrix-expert-on-what-organisations-should-be-looking-for-in-an-iaas-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Datacentrix expert on what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS provider?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mark Chadwick, Head of Cloud Services, Datacentrix<\/strong>, looks at what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS provider.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u2018Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)\u2019 has become practically synonymous with \u2018cloud\u2019. The difference? Cloud can be looked at as a location and on-demand consumption model, while IaaS delivers the actual cloud computing infrastructure, facilitating the availability of new capabilities in an evergreen manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a company\ndecides to go the IaaS route and selects a service provider, it is important that\nthey adhere to the type of principles that would be used for any type of\ntechnology decision \u2013 due diligence still applies and provides a good starting\npoint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance,\nfactors such as security, service level agreements and other typical\ncontractual checks would most definitely be relevant when it comes to this type\nof evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this might\nprovide a good baseline from an IaaS perspective, the next step entails looking\nat the reason behind the business\u2019 move to the cloud. Everyone wants to make\nthe change, but it is important to understand why. It is critical that the\norganisation gets to the bottom of what the business case is \u2013 be it based on a\nspecific business requirement, or perhaps the definition of a new strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A potential IaaS\npartner should be able to conduct a rationalisation exercise, ascertaining\ncloud readiness, making recommendations as to which lower risk workloads to\nmove first, as well as providing a roadmap that allows the company to build\nconfidence in the new environment. By identifying a specific use case, businesses\nwould also find that some IaaS providers may be more suitable than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, the\norganisation should look at how to optimise what has been moved from on-premises\nto IaaS, determining the real benefits that can be gained, such as cost\nreductions or operational efficiencies. This is often overlooked, and it makes\nsense to ensure that the service received is not prohibitively expensive for\nthe same, or less value than a traditional setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another question to\nask is to what extent the potential provider can help with managing the environment.\nSome IaaS partners offer managed service capabilities, where they take on the\nresponsibility of at least part of a company\u2019s environment over and above the\nprovision and management of the underlying infrastructure, and it is here that greater\nscale and value can be gained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, it is\nimportant to find out whether the potential partner offers complementary\nservices, such as serverless technologies, which allow for the dynamic consumption\nof computing resources via the cloud, without the need to manage underlying\nvirtual machines and accompanying OS components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, compliance\nis of particular significance when it pertains to data, specifically with\nregards to regulatory frameworks like the South African Protection of Personal\nInformation Act (POPIA), which defines how companies should process information\nabout data subjects, or people\u2019s personal information, and what controls need\nto be in place to do so. The key here is to find an IaaS partner that has\nalready done the legwork in this regard and is able to assist companies in\nnavigating this landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Chadwick, Head of Cloud Services, Datacentrix, looks at what organisations should be looking for in an IaaS provider. The term \u2018Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)\u2019 has become practically synonymous with \u2018cloud\u2019. The difference? Cloud can be looked at as a location and on-demand consumption model, while IaaS delivers the actual cloud computing infrastructure, facilitating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":29544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,46,6,399,10675],"tags":[22,1291,428,429,11413,6559,11414],"class_list":["post-29543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-data-centres","category-insights","category-more-news","category-thought-leadership","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-services","tag-iaas","tag-infrastructure-as-a-service","tag-mark-chadwick","tag-popia","tag-south-african-protection-of-personal-information-act"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29545,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions\/29545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}