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Other relatively obvious factors include cost control and meeting bandwidth needs . IaaS is a proven solution for those points , according to MacPherson .
“ Edge becomes an optimisation or enabler for some of those solutions to work in an IaaS world . Tighter integration needs between cloud and on-prem are also driving IaaS , whether it ' s through the public cloud providers starting to offer on-prem solutions , or VMware and services like Tanzu or Kubernetes .
With these big clusters across cloud environments , you can run anywhere but still consume CPU time and magnetic storage space .
“ The way you get there becomes less important than who gets you there . Software like Kubernetes being open source allows IaaS providers to adapt it to their proprietary services ,” says MacPherson .
And all of this should be viewed through a “ post-COVID 19 ” lens , he adds .
“ Public cloud services are a critical part of enterprise recovery strategies . Pressures on budgets and infrastructure will test resilience and operational efficiency ,” says MacPherson . technologymagazine . com 77