An Advanced Infrastructure as a Service, Today

Published: Sept. 18, 2012, 8:47 p.m.

Bob Rizika, U.S. CEO of ProfitBricks, and Achim Weiss, CEO of ProfitBricks Germany, provide a look into the future of cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service with a service that is available today.

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What makes an advanced IaaS offering today? Here are a few hints:\n
- Scale-up servers with on-the-fly CPU and RAM elasticity\n
- By the minute pricing\n
- Infiniband for 80GBps throughput per server\n
- Software defined networking\n
- Replicated Raid10 storage