CNYRIC Connections - Infrastructure

"The CNYRIC’s Infrastructure as a Service aims to assume the risk and expense of districts’ technological requirements by leveraging cloud computing to meet (and manage) their needs remotely."

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – Removing the Physical Barriers to Digital Efficiency

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, so too does the need for businesses to stay current with these changes. The persistent hardware needs of greater storage, memory, and processing power are necessities that most businesses grudgingly accept, as they represent a continual imposition on budgets and/or capital expenses. Given the rapid rate of hardware depreciation inherent to the technology field, many companies see these upgrades as an unending expense that has simply become a reality of doing business.

But recently, there has been a move to incorporate what has long been considered “traditional” technology infrastructure into cloud computing services. The CNYRIC’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) aims to assume the risk and expense of a school district’s technological requirements by leveraging cloud computing to meet (and manage) its needs remotely. For the district, this means that its “traditional” technological infrastructure can now be handled offsite, and be handled as a service.

Gone are the inevitable-but-critical infrastructure upgrades; service upgrades are all handled externally by the CNYRIC. Moreover, the traditional budgetary expenses that have long been tied to hardware upgrades and server deployment can now be transitioned into an operational expense within a district’s budget; one that can be reliably planned and accounted for. A district’s valuable time will no longer be spent on the burdensome procurement and provisioning processes. Its budget will no longer be impacted by the inevitability of hardware obsolescence, as there will no longer be any physical hardware to upgrade. That, too, is handled by the CNYRIC.

The district’s data will be dispersed (for redundancy) to avoid any single point of failure, thereby eliminating the server room as it’s traditionally existed, as it’s now provided by the cloud. Districts would also no longer have to worry about power outages, hardware failures, or expensive maintenance fees.

To get the complete picture of everything offered by IaaS (and an idea of how rollout is achieved), please contact Rick Dillon.