Final Paper

Moving forward, now we will discuss two elements of IaaS and they are the benefits and the limitations. Commencing with the benefits, there are 5 benefitical factors we will highlight which includes Scailability, Reduction in down time, Minimal maintenance of hardware, Cost savings and enhanced Security & Disaster Recovery. Beginning with Scalability, this is considered as a top and most popular benefit that IaaS has to offer. It kicks the traditional infrastructure out the window and you have the ability to scale up your system and it is on demand. This is done efficiently, quickly and in addition to this, it does minimise downtime in which we will cover more as we move forward in this discussion. Scalability also allows small businesses

Thanks to the IaaS system, businesses do have to establish uptime, maintain the equipment for the networking and the hardware and replacing the old equipment with new equipment. According to the 5 Important Benefits of Infrastructure as a Service, it mentions that “IaaS also saves enterprises from having to buy more capacity to deal with sudden business spikes.” (Staff, S. T. (2014, March 14). 5 Important Benefits of Infrastructure as a Service. Retrieved October 04, 2017, from

While they are various disadvantages that can be tackled for IaaS, the three factors we are going to discuss includes Dependency on Internet Availability, Dependency on Virtualization services availability, and the Limitation of user privacy. Starting with the dependency on internet availability, employees can have access to all the services and resources they need via the internet, however it is mandatory that an internet connection is provided to have the access or it possible that you will see a decrease in