Infrastructure as a service

Flexibility and scalability with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS ) gives you the flexibility and scalability you need for your IT infrastructure. Instead of investing in expensive hardware and its maintenance, IaaS allows you to use computing power, storage and network infrastructure as required via the cloud. You can quickly adapt your resources to respond to changing business requirements and only pay for what you actually use. This makes IaaS particularly attractive if your workloads fluctuate or you need additional capacity at short notice. Whether you use Microsoft Azure or other leading IaaS providers, you retain full control of your IT environment while the underlying infrastructure is maintained by the provider. This not only saves you costs, but also increases your efficiency.

Save on fixed costs with IaaS

High fixed costs arise when you provide IT resources in your company that are only required temporarily or at irregular intervals. Conventional infrastructures often have to be designed for peak loads, which means that you pay for unused capacity even during periods of low usage. This model is inefficient and expensive. With Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), however, you can react flexibly to fluctuating requirements by scaling your IT resources as needed. Instead of incurring fixed costs, you only pay for the capacity you actually use - be it during seasonal peaks or for regular tasks such as month-end bookkeeping.

A good example of this is a seasonal production application or accounting software that is mainly used for month-end closing. Here you can use IaaS to dynamically adapt your IT infrastructure and thus avoid unnecessary costs. The same applies to your development and test environments: Instead of keeping resources permanently available, with IaaS you use exactly the computing power you need for test phases and the rollout of new functions. This ensures that you have the necessary IT capacity available even during intensive phases without paying too much during quiet periods.

The choice between IaaS, PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) depends on your specific business requirements. IaaS gives you maximum control over your IT infrastructure and is ideal if you want to develop customized applications or run complex workloads. PaaS, on the other hand, provides you with a development environment that you can use without the hassle of managing the underlying infrastructure. If you mainly need ready-made software solutions that are ready to use immediately, SaaS is the right choice. These service models complement each other and offer you the flexibility to choose the solution that best suits your requirements. By combining IaaS with PaaS and SaaS, you maximize efficiency and reduce the administrative burden of your IT landscape.

Hybrid IaaS: The ideal combination of flexibility and security

With a hybrid IaaS solution, you combine the advantages of the public cloud and the private cloud. You can manage sensitive data in a private environment and at the same time access the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud for less critical applications. Hybrid IaaS is particularly useful if you have to meet certain compliance requirements or want to ensure that critical data always remains under your direct control. At the same time, you can outsource less sensitive workloads to the public cloud to save costs and benefit from the high availability and scalability of the cloud. This solution offers you the best balance between security, flexibility and cost optimization, while allowing you to design your IT strategy according to your individual requirements.

Advantages of Infrastructure as a Service