A hosting company operates from two data centers and typically hosts very large customers. The
delivery and support of their IT infrastructure is not service driven. Customers suffer significant
lead times to establish new operational environments, or to change existing infrastructure
requirements.
A new, highly secure application development environment has been requested by one of the
hosting company’s customers. The customer has a tight time frame and needs to be able to create
a test environment on-demand, within hours. The hosting company has decided to transition to
ITaaS to meet the needs of this (and future) clients.
What must be done to achieve this?
A.
Allocate capacity in the virtual environment. Maintain an agreed upon set of server gold builds.
When needed, start the appropriate number of servers from templates.
B.
Create a PaaS offering and contract. Automate and orchestrate the creation of the environment
on-demand.
C.
Create an IaaS capability. Agree upon the infrastructure dependencies to meet the application’s
needs. Use server provisioning tools to build servers when needed.
D.
Utilize a public SaaS provider. Analyze the dependencies that the application may have on
infrastructure that is located in the hosting data center.