In the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO), a small group of agencies were allowed to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker.
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Forbes: Ideas like the cloud and infrastructure as a service are all very abstract.
Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.
With the market giving a huge premium to cloud companies, this will be the year to float the undisputed leader in Infrastructure as a service.
It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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As a cloud computing service, Joyent manages things like server infrastructure and bandwidth needs for its customers.
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Cloud adoption is moving top down (SaaS applications) and bottoms up (Infrastructure as a service like Amazon).
According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.
Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud services?
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And they believe that they are delivering cloud enabled IT as a service, and much greater efficiency than companies are currently getting out of their IT infrastructure.
The cloud computing market consists of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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