AN ANALYSIS OF THE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FROM THE WORLD’S IAAS CLOUD SERVICES PROVIDERS
AN ANALYSIS OF THE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FROM THE WORLD’S IAAS CLOUD SERVICES PROVIDERS

Summary/Abstract: Over the last few years, interest in renting Cloud Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) has increased and this has led to the development of many newsolutions of this class. The competition on this market resulted in serious changes inthe business strategies of the providers of IaaS cloud services. We are witnessing anincredibly dynamic development of the IaaS market. This requires the thoroughanalysis of the current possibilities of the providers of such products and the directionin which they will be developing in the near future. The objectives of the present article are to analyse the haracteristics,advantages and disadvantages of the IaaS solutions of the world’s leading providers ofcloud services and to offer recommendations with reference to choosing an effectivecloud configuration.To achieve the set goals, the study has used the Gartner’s Magic Quadrantresearch methodology; has collected and summarised data from the studied providersof IaaS cloud services and, based on these results has outlined parameters that canbe used to analyse, compare and assess the leading world IaaS solutions.

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