Cisco Cisco UCS Director 5.1 White Paper
White Paper
December 2015
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Infrastructure as a Service Enables Business Speed and
Agility
IaaS helps you create a business that can quickly adjust to changing market forces.
It helps you to build an IT organization that can:
It helps you to build an IT organization that can:
• Remain flexible to quickly align business and IT objectives
• Optimize budget allocation and investments by simplifying and automating core IT
• Optimize budget allocation and investments by simplifying and automating core IT
processes
• Quickly deliver and demonstrate business value without compromising security
and while managing risk in compliance with laws and regulations
• Help transform the business by unveiling new revenue streams, creating new
business processes and new business models
• Assume the role of broker of IT services when appropriate, recognizing the
benefits of adopting best-in-class capabilities to remain competitive even if
gaining these benefits requires you to outsource portions of the IT value chain
gaining these benefits requires you to outsource portions of the IT value chain
defines IaaS as follows:
“Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a standardized, highly automated
offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and
networking capabilities are owned and hosted by a service provider and
offered to customers on-demand. Customers are able to self-provision this
infrastructure, using a Web-based graphical user interface that serves as an
IT operations management console for the overall environment. API access to
the infrastructure may also be offered as an option.”
offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and
networking capabilities are owned and hosted by a service provider and
offered to customers on-demand. Customers are able to self-provision this
infrastructure, using a Web-based graphical user interface that serves as an
IT operations management console for the overall environment. API access to
the infrastructure may also be offered as an option.”
Rather than outsourcing these capabilities, many organizations are implementing
them in their own data centers to gain the flexibility and agility of self-service, on-
demand provisioning of both physical and virtual infrastructure. Cisco UCS Director
them in their own data centers to gain the flexibility and agility of self-service, on-
demand provisioning of both physical and virtual infrastructure. Cisco UCS Director