A company is considering transitioning to ITaaS. During an exploratory discussion, a potential stakeholder asks
for clarification on the key difference(s) between traditional IT services and a cloud services.
What is the correct response?

A.
A traditional IT service is often provided without accounting for direct cost or business value to the lines of
business; a cloud service is packaged to provide business value to the lines of business and support direct
costing through showbacks.

B.
A traditional IT service views the physical network architecture as a manually-scaled system; a cloud
service relies on an underlying layer of scalable network architecture.

C.
A cloud service is any service that uses one of the five tenets of cloud computing; a traditional IT service
uses guidelines from a more traditional computing model.

D.
Both traditional IT services and cloud services are capable of driving value for the lines of business through
service catalogs and degrees of automation; cloud services make use of cloud tenets and are designed to
scale vertically.

Explanation: