Briefly about IaaS Trends



    Map of geographic distribution and “density” of PaaS infrastructures. The more saturated the orange color, the more PaaS-offers in the region.

    With the development of the business, the number of applications that companies would like to place in the cloud is supplemented by more complex systems, for example, HR programs, financial and accounting software. The business is guided by certain requirements for data warehouses, which are determined not only by economic prerequisites, but also by the need to comply with industry standards and new laws.

    In this regard, companies often turn to external suppliers with the intention of placing their data in the cloud.

    Cloud technology can be divided into three modelsservices: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service ( SaaS ), platform as a service (PaaS). In the case of SaaS, the consumer gains the ability to use the provider’s applications running in the cloud. Applications are accessible from various client devices, for example, through a browser. According to Gartner, the total average annual growth rate of the SaaS market in 2016 will be 19.5%, and the amount, and the cost of SaaS, will reach as much as $ 32.8 billion. However, some vendors do not offer an application, but an environment for launching applications at once - this solution is called PaaS.

    PaaS can be defined as a computing platform that enables the user to create web applications at the highest possible speed, since he does not need to buy and discuss the necessary software and architecture. For example, PaaS can be useful when several developers are working on a project at once. This type of service is becoming quite popular. According to a GigaOm study , only 7% of those surveyed said they used PaaS in 2011. In 2014, their number was already 41% and continues to increase.

    Many PaaS providers use IaaS to manage their infrastructure - according to paasify.it, this amount is 43%. Iaasor infrastructure as a service provides the consumer with processing, storage, and other basic computing resources for deploying and running arbitrary software (including OS and applications). In this case, the client does not manage the underlying physical infrastructure of the cloud, but can manage operating systems, storage systems, and applications.

    With all of these capabilities, IT professionals can quickly allocate the necessary resources to adapt to the ever-changing business needs. IaaS reduces the time needed to deploy new applications and eliminates the need to interrupt services in order to maintain equipment maintenance. We discussed specific examples of using IaaS for business by Russian entrepreneurs here .

    ByAccording to Statista.com, market revenues in 2015 amounted to more than $ 18 billion, which is 28% more than a year earlier. According to forecasts, revenues in 2016 will grow by about 25%.



    Revenues of the IaaS market from 2010 to 2016

    IaaS is a fairly young direction and is in a transitional phase, and therefore new competing companies will appear in this area. According to IDC, soon 75% of the proposals of IaaS providers will be reviewed: new solutions will be proposed or old ones will be changed. You can read about the main trends in the field of work of data centers in 2016 here .

    The current economic situation in the Russian Federation is forcing businesses to reduce IT costs - they have to optimize existing projects, postpone planned ones, and review decisions made. It is the desire to minimize costs that leads to an increase in the popularity of IT outsourcing. The growth of the currency against the ruble contributes to the fact that many companies are beginning to look for opportunities to place it on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is to some extent influenced by the recently adopted Law on Personal Data. According to J'son & Partners Consulting, the volume of the Russian IaaS market will grow to 7 billion rubles by 2018, despite the fact that in 2014 it was at the level of 2.5 billion. This means that IaaS providers should pay special attention to the state "Iron" in order to keep up with the growing demand.



    Russian IaaS market growth in billion rubles, according to J'son & Partners Consulting

    Server hardware market is also experiencing growth. According to Gartner, in the third quarter of 2015, the number of server shipments around the world increased by 9.2% compared to the same period in 2014. The leader in the global market for the sale of server hardware is HP, which has a market share of 27.3% (Q3 2015). Further, the places were distributed as follows: Dell (17.9%), IBM (9.8%), Lenovo (7.9%), Cisco (6.6%), and others (30.5%).

    PS By the way, not so long ago to us in IT-GRAD"Arrived" modular server Cisco UCS M4308. Its peculiarity is that it is designed in accordance with the requirements for resource density and low power consumption, which is important for parallel and cloud computing.

    The M series uses a chassis with eight cartridge slots that communicate with each other using third-generation VICs. UCS M142 cartridges themselves are based on Intel Xeon E3 1275L v3 processors with 8 MB cache and a frequency of 2.7 GHz and allow you to install up to 32 GB of RAM.

    One of the main architectural decisions of the Cisco UCS M4380 server is to separate the CPU and memory blocks from other subsystems. This allows you to increase the number of computing cores and the amount of memory without installing a new server with PSU, cooling systems, controllers and other components. This approach is very convenient if the server space is limited, but you need to increase capacity.



    We also prepared an unboxing post for those who would like to take a look at a more detailed overview of this device.

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