Question

Compare and contrast how IaaS facilitates system redundancy and load balancing. Define and describe how you would use IaaS to facilitate redundancy and load-balancing for a business that is considering moving its infrastructure to the cloud

Answer 1

Iaas- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

It is a form of cloud computing that provides resources over the Internet.

That may includes hardware, storage, servers and data space or network components;

It may also include software.

Yes it facilitates redundancy and load balancing

The Internet contains a huge traffic. So the work load on the server becomes very high.

You can increase the performance of the server but it may also get loaded high in the future.

So another way is to create cluster of servers (multiple)

Load balancer can handle HTTP, SMTP, DNS, FTP, and POP/IMAP requests.

The load balancing is done through a hardware or simply it is a program.

A program is either software or a hardware

Software load balancing is worked on desktops, pc's.

Hardware load balancing is worked on a hardware boxes contains IC's(integrated circuits).

Handling a business infrastructure:

As mentioned above creating cluster of servers will decrease the load balancing, if the tcp requests are vey high, the load balancer splits the requests into multiple requests and get handles the requests by the multplie (clustered) servers.

So the work load on the servers decreases and the redundancy, load balancing decreases.