Staff ask whether Infrastructure as a Service means the city buys p…

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Staff ask whether Infrastructure as a Service means the city buys physical servers from Microsoft. Which statement is correct?

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IaaS delivers virtualized infrastructure as a service; customers do not purchase the provider’s physical servers — IaaS is a rental of virtual infrastructure over the network — not a truck dropping Microsoft’s racks at city hall. You consume compute and storage as a service. Owning the building title is a different story entirely.

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IaaS is a hardware purchase order that ships racks to city hall

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IaaS only exists when the city owns the datacenter building title

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IaaS is identical to SaaS because both always include buying disks

Staff ask whether Infrastructure as a Service means the city buys physical servers from Microsoft. Which statement is correct?

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