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What are the business benefits of IaaS?

I was asked to summarise the benefits of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to the business community over traditional server deployments.

I can only answer this from my personal prospective…but as a small business owner I can tell you that the benefit in IaaS is:

1. in allowing startups access to infrastructure or CPU cycles that they usually cant access…due to cash or speed to deploy. I am thinking our own service emailcloud.com and the Animoto story here.
2. in helping enterprises to process some periodic batch jobs…large transactional or process driven jobs and not the day to day stuff. I am thinking of the NYTimes story here.
3. in providing tools or basic consulting for either of the above. I am thinking of Rightscale etc here.

I think that the various AWS services and Flexiscale are ‘on the money’ because they allow very simple access to all three.