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  • please go to the line the computer guy dot com In order to view schematics, code and Maur for the projects that you are learning about Welcome back.

  • So today I want to talk about I A s or infrastructure as a service.

  • So up until this point, we've thought about software as a service.

  • We talk about platform as a service and now we will be talking about I A s infrastructure as a service.

  • Now a lot of people get confused with infrastructure is a service.

  • And they say I don't understand what is the difference between A S S, A S and P A s and the important thing to understand about I A s versus against software as a service or platform as the service is that with I A s, basically you can't do anything with the service is being provided unless it's built into a larger overall infrastructure.

  • So when you look at something such as a software as a service right, software as a service is a product that your end users can actually use as soon as you swipe the credit card and create the user accounts.

  • So if you're using something like a female or QuickBooks online or salesforce or anything like that.

  • Basically, you create the account, you create the user's for that for the business account, and then your users air actually interacting with that service more or less, everything is there for them.

  • If you look at something like platform is a service now, you gotta be a little bit more technical with platforms, the service.

  • But you actually get a functional platform.

  • So if you want to host a web application, a website, something like that, basically you have your code or sit down, they write the code, they upload that onto the platform as a service.

  • And now you have something functional to do whatever it is that you've coded to d'oh.

  • So platform as a service is still something functional that is being sold to you.

  • When you start looking at infrastructure of the service, basically, you just get infrastructure.

  • If you tie that infrastructure into other things, you then get something functional for the end user for yourself.

  • But on its own, it's almost kind of sort of useless s.

  • So if we look at old skool infrastructure of the service, you can look at something suck as D n s.

  • Right.

  • So you go thio host gator dot com You go to go, daddy to get dot com, you go wherever else you go to a registrar.

  • You by your domain name.

  • You know, Eli, the computer guy dot com.

  • And then with that, you get your D n s configurations.

  • You can point your A records you compote post your your sub domains.

  • You can do your MX records, all of that kind of stuff, right, And that is infrastructure as a service.

  • So basically what you're doing is there pointing that a record to a specific I p address you're pointing.

  • See names to sub domains or two domain names.

  • And basically, you're able to put all of these configurations into your D.

  • N s record, but then passed that that's all you got, right?

  • If you don't build a server and deploy website, then D N s really isn't going to do anything for anybody, right?

  • Your users, they're not going to be long into D.

  • N s and doing anything.

  • Hopefully, it shouldn't be He's gonna be doing anything right.

  • Basically, Deanna's is just d n s right to think about that with things like eight of us.

  • Glacier.

  • So he ws glacier is a storage solution from Amazon That is absolutely awesome for offsite backup.

  • So it's a low cost store solution for backing up your infrastructure so well, your server.

  • So let's say you're needing backup.

  • Your servers.

  • You need to back up your data bases.

  • Basically, you need it someplace off.

  • Site of that again.

  • If a tornado or something happens on wipes out your building, you know your data is secure somewhere.

  • Well, if you look at something like eight of us Glacier with A W s glacier, all you get is the stories, right?

  • This is not something like Google Drive.

  • So Google Drive is software as a service.

  • So what's the difference between Google driving something like eight of us stories?

  • Well, with Google drive right.

  • When you create your Google drive account for storage, you actually get a web interface, right?

  • So you you create the account, you create the account for your users.

  • Your users can log in to to the website and actually be able to interact with the data that's stored up there.

  • The files, the folders, they can download things.

  • They can upload things.

  • They can put a little piece of synchronization software onto their computer toe, have their computer backup Thio Google drive the whole nine yards.

  • So when you look at Google Drive, the reason Google Drive is software as a service is because it is a complaint.

  • Product is a piece of a software that you're simply paying for as a service.

  • Another hand.

  • On the other hand, you too, you know, Bill's glacier or any of the other eight of US storage solutions and all you get is storage and they tell you how to connect to it.

  • And then you can figure out how to do everything else, right?

  • So if you're going to use something like eight of us Glacier, they just give you the story.

  • They don't give you this software in order to connect to the storage.

  • They don't give you the things so that you're in.

  • Users are able to do stuff with a storage.

  • Basically, all they give you a story now.

  • This was a big deal about 10 years ago, so when eight of us toward was still a pretty new thing, and a lot of the I t people were like, Yes, this is gonna be awesome.

  • Literally one of the biggest issues you ran into one of the biggest issues you ran into us.

  • We didn't know how to connect to it because again, if you're using FTP, doing some like FTP is relatively easy, right?

  • There's all these other story ways to connect with things like story when eight of us glacier came out or what AWS storage solutions came out.

  • One of the big problems ah lot of I t people had is we wanted to use the storage, but we weren't sure what products would allow us to actually use that store.

  • So if you're gonna use something like eight of us Glacier, basically what happens is you can have a backup solution on your stir vor or on your restored solution or whatever else, and that back up software will connect to eight of us glacier so that you can back up to glacier.

  • But eight of us really doesn't provide you the functionality.

  • What eight of us does is it provides you the storage and it provides you how to connect.

  • This is this is what your software needs to dio in order to connect to our storage past that you can figure it the hell out on your own.

  • And so that's what we're talking about.

  • We're talking about I A s infrastructure as a storage.

  • You're thinking about things like, basically, is like D.

  • N s.

  • You're thinking about things like load balancing load.

  • Balance season is a great example of infrastructures of service.

  • So if you're gonna load balance traffic going to multiple servers, right, you can set up load balancing.

  • But without the servers, without the service is set up on the servers and all the other stuff that load balancing doesn't really do anything for you.

  • And so that's what you're gonna be thinking about.

  • What I A s is.

  • All of these cloud service is that could be provided to you that on their own, if you just have them, you just have that is basically worthless.

  • But what you do is kind of like Legos.

  • You plug all of these different products, these infrastructure as a service solutions to gather, and then that's where you can get your overall infrastructures.

  • And we're talking about A S.

  • That's the kind of thing that we're talking about.

  • Now, when we're talking about infrastructure as a service again, this is a kind of a concept in the technology world, and then you have different vendors that provide specific products.

  • So what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to look and see what your specific situation requires.

  • And then, based off of that, you can go out and you can start looking at the different vendors.

  • And then you can start looking at the different products those vendors offer.

  • Now it is very important to be thinking about this again, depending on what your specific requirements are, because the different vendors that are available they many times will specialize in different product areas.

  • Eso If you're trying to do things that has something like machine learning, you may want to focus more on Microsoft azure versus something like I be EMS I.

  • A s solutions.

  • So one of things you're really going to have to be thinking about is really what solutions are required for your particular situation and then from there, go and look at all the products and look at all the different vendors.

  • And then again, as I say with a lot of this kind of stuff.

  • It's simply a paint by numbers of Okay, I need this entity, this entity, this and this company does all of those things.

  • So therefore, I will buy that one company again.

  • It is important in the cloud world that you do not become a some kind of fan Boy, you don't say I buy Microsoft or I buy eight of us and I won't.

  • I won't go with any other vendor because at the other end of the day, if eight of us doesn't provide you, the service is that you need.

  • Then frankly, you need to go with a different vendor, So this is something to think about.

  • So with that, let's go over to the computer.

  • I'll show you some of the different vendors out there again.

  • We'll show you IBM.

  • I'll show you Microsoft and I'll show you a W s just to kind of give you the idea of all the different kinds of service is that are available with infrastructure as a service.

  • So you could get a better idea how you might be able to implement this into your own environment.

  • So to start with we'll start with good old IBM.

  • So it is important to remember that IBM exists.

  • I know for a lot of young folks out there, IBM is a company from the seventies or eighties, and you probably don't think about it a lot anymore.

  • But IBM really is pushing into the cloud computing sphere, and they have a lot of good products that are available.

  • And especially if you're looking at deploying for an enterprise environment, they may be offering you things that other companies can't for whatever it is that you require.

  • Now, when you start thinking about infrastructure of the service again, remember, there's a lot of different types of service is out there that you may need.

  • You know, you got to compute and you've got the network.

  • You've got the databases, you've got the analytics.

  • These are the types of things that you may normally think about, but something that thing thinking about again in this modern world is there are Blockchain service's that are available there.

  • R I O.

  • T.

  • And mobile service is that are available.

  • There's a I and security service is that are available so again, if you don't necessarily want to spend up your own solutions for things like artificial intelligence or block chain or anything like that.

  • You might be able to go to one of these infrastructure as a service providers and actually simply be able to purchase a service from them that does whatever you need to accomplish.

  • So again we go down.

  • We take a look at things like Compute So again, bare metal servers.

  • You know, cloud virtual servers, mass storage servers that got all kinds of different servers here.

  • Those are things that you could be thinking about for again.

  • How you want to actually deploy your code into the real world.

  • We scroll down, you can see networking.

  • So with networking again, when you think about infrastructure is a service, things such as content delivery networks, eso, content delivery networks basically act is kind of like a cashing service for when people are trying to get to your content.

  • So that might be something that's useful for you again.

  • Load balancer.

  • So actually using one of their load balancers in orderto balance traffic to the servers that you have things like network security.

  • So again, especially if you have servers up in the cloud traffic is going to go into those servers as you're trying to think about again.

  • How to block ports.

  • Basically, how to provide more security for those virtual machines.

  • Something think about is simply to buy purchase and infrastructure as a service for things like network security.

  • If we scroll down, we could see other things again.

  • All kinds of different storage solutions.

  • Here, they've got these packs.

  • They got management options for you.

  • Security things like an app i d ad authentication to web and mobile app, including through social law.

  • Get so this this may be a very important thing for you, right?

  • You come up with a great idea for some kind of mobile or cloud Quale product you want to give to your end users.

  • But something to be very concerned about is how are you going to deal with the A log in process for dealing with that application.

  • So simply purpose ing a service such as like an app I D service from IBM.

  • That may be a way to give you that authentication functionality that you need without having to deal with the servers.

  • Get network security.

  • S S l ke protect a whole bunch of different things.

  • You have databases.

  • So depending on what kind of databases, you might be running anything for my sequel to Mongo D be all kinds of different databases and analytics.

  • So if you wanna track the analytics for what's going on with your product or service is out in the real world on, then you have things such as a eyes and actually have a I service is for you.

  • They may want to tie into what you're doing and then beyond that again I O.

  • T and mobile.

  • So these are some of the things to be thinking about either.

  • Some of this service is that you can simply purchase or basically rent, you know, for a monthly fee from a company like IBM.

  • And now you no longer have to worry about buying physical servers and figuring out we're going to store the physical servers and worrying about those damn CPU fans when they fail.

  • Every once in a while, you go over, you take a look at Microsoft is your so Microsoft and your offer is just a whole crap ton of different things.

  • And again you haven't thought about Microsoft is your in a while.

  • You may want to take a look at it.

  • A lot of the kids nowadays, a lot of the young ones.

  • They think they think everything is a W s right.

  • Eight of us or bust.

  • Amazon is the greatest in the world and get nothing wrong.

  • AWS is great, but a lot of times they forget about companies that his IBM or things like Microsoft is your Microsoft.

  • Azure seems all stuffy and old but realized like Microsoft Azure has many.

  • Many service is that they can provide you.

  • That may be very useful for you.

  • For whatever new products that you're, you're do it as your bots.

  • Service's auto suggest they have things like image search, cognitive, certain service's add smart, a P I capabilities to enable contextual interactions.

  • Content.

  • Moderator data signs were cruel machines.

  • Microsoft Genomex.

  • I thought this was interesting power, genome sequencing and research insights.

  • Now this again, and this is what I want you to understand about the modern world of being a technology professional and trying to figure out solutions for your specific company.

  • Now, obviously, if you're in a construction company, you don't care about, you know, mix right.

  • If you're in a fashion company, don't care about, you know, mix.

  • But if you're in some kind of like a some kind of like medical institution, something like basically, having infrastructure is a service.

  • Geno.

  • Mixed sequencing might actually be very, very useful for you.

  • Very valuable for you, Inc recognize er and a I service that recognizes digital ink contents like his handwriting shapes and ink document.

  • Lay out all kinds of other things to speak.

  • Translation.

  • You scroll through got analytics options for you if you go down and take a look at things like media.

  • So again, content delivery network encoding, Studio grade and Cody at Cloud scale.

  • As your media player, Media Analytics Media service is alive and on demand.

  • Streaming service is so think about it.

  • So if you're working for a company and the company goes, Wow, you know, I really like all that stuff going on with YouTube, but I don't want to deal with you two.

  • I don't trust you too, like literally you could use.

  • The service is here essentially to build some kind of internal system, much like YouTube for your company.

  • And then, since this is a Microsoft Azure that could then tie into active directory.

  • And that could tie into AA lot of the other things within the Microsoft stack.

  • Beyond that again, you can go down to things like Security again as your active directory, synchronize on premises directories and enable single sign on security center, VP and gateways as your DDOS protection.

  • They've got all kinds of stuff.

  • They're so these.

  • These are some of the service's that are provided through Microsoft Azure.

  • And then, of course, you go over to eight of us, you over take a look at their products, and again they've got the same, you know, just a massive number of solutions that you may not have thought about.

  • And you could actually implement these into your particular infrastructure relatively easily in everything from Internet of things.

  • Eight of us, I ot analytics.

  • I ot core a lot of different stuff.

  • Their advice management media service is they have options here again if you want to build your own like little internal YouTube for your company organization, and so they have solutions.

  • But do you realize again this is all this all individual products?

  • It's kind of like when you're thinking about a s during these cloud service is it's like you're going to a store.

  • And so certain stores offer certain products and other stores offer other products.

  • Sometimes they offer basically the same thing.

  • Sometimes they offer very similar products with slight differences.

  • It's like it's like the difference between going from WalMart to target, like Wal Mart and Target are relatively similar.

  • But if you like a specific brand of ice cream, then you would want to go to one versus the other.

  • Like if you see you know they've got AWS is all of these product offerings, and Azure has many of the exact same product offerings.

  • But again, they might be slightly different age or may have some.

  • The eight of us doesn't eight of us may have something is your doesn't Azure is going to work with the Microsoft Stack, most likely better than a W s.

  • Well, a W s may play, you know, nicer with with other vendors versus Azure.

  • And then again, you've got some of these other folks out there, such as IBM, and they may offer solutions to you that might be more valuable for your particular enterprise.

  • So These are some of the options that are available for you.

  • And again, if you haven't looked at infrastructure is a service and what it might be able to do for your environment.

  • I think you're probably missing out on a lot of solutions that could really help you.

  • So that's a basic overview of infrastructure as a service and why it will be important for your environment and the and the current date and time.

  • I can't imagine why you want to be using it a little, at least a little bit of infrastructure in the service of this point again.

  • It is not like the old days is not 2010 to 2009 when simply infrastructure as a service was a new thing.

  • And so it wasn't built into a lot of products or connective ity wasn't built into a lot of products.

  • But now the fact of the matter is that connectivity is built into many products, and so using infrastructures of service is rather a simple thing.

  • Now again, it wasn't in the day.

  • I remember sitting there going, Wow, I really want to use X, y or Z.

  • Then we don't be scratching our heads trying to figure out.

  • But how do we connect to it?

  • I don't understand.

  • But now, again, like something like eight of us.

  • Glenn Glacier.

  • A lot of backup solutions will simply have the eight of us glacier connection built into them.

  • So again, you simply sweat your credit card so that you could start using idea of us Glacier.

  • You then point your backup solution to eight of us.

  • Glacier.

  • You know, you encrypt your backup so no hackers theoretically steal it or look at the information.

  • You back it up to eight of us glacier.

  • And now you have a you know, a really time if you set it up that way, basically offsite backup.

  • And so you don't have to worry about a lot of problems you have before about you know what to do with all your tape backups and make sure you have an off site backup and oh, did did the person actually take the offsite backup with them when they left the premises?

  • Because again, that's one of problems.

  • You run into the real world as you come up with work flows for something like offsite backup.

  • So Okay, so this set of tapes will go home with some engineer.

  • Well, he set that up and then that engineer gets fired or quits, and then people forget to hand off that job to somebody else.

  • And so all of a sudden, what happens is the tapes are taken from from the server room, and then they're put into another room, and then the old ones are taken back to the server room and they kind of just sit there again on the premises.

  • They should be leaving.

  • Somebody should be taking those off site so they're secure.

  • But for some reason, nobody takes them off site anymore.

  • People forget, like, why do we put those tapes there anyway?

  • I don't know.

  • That's what we've always done, right?

  • It's all of a sudden you're offsite.

  • Backup is no longer being taken off site because again, things just simply fell through the cracks.

  • If you set up something like a W s glacier just so your backup solution automatically will back up to Glacier.

  • Then you know you have that offsite backup solution, and you don't have to worry about things such as again the backups to the backups not actually leaving the site again.

  • Something really to be thinking about is, let's say I have the off site backups.

  • I put them in my car, and when they're in the car, the entire area gets flooded.

  • Well, that well, they're outside.

  • They're in my car.

  • But there's still write these kinds of things kinds of things to be thinking about again.

  • Things like that.

  • Things like basically, like denial of service or different security service Is that may that you may use there?

  • Is there a lot of service is that that are out there that are available for you that at this point in time again, depending on what products you're using, really are simply pointing collect again.

  • It's very simple.

  • If you just say I'm using a cab, this product I'm connecting to the service.

  • Here is my account information, and now everything is functioning relatively easily.

  • It's not.

  • It's not the old days of infrastructure of the service where you basically had to engineer the solution yourself.

  • Nowadays, a lot of things you simply you know, PLO click add in your credentials and away you go.

  • So if you're not using, I s you really should be thinking about using it again, possibly in small ways.

  • There's a big argument nowadays about the whole idea of, you know, should you really trust the cloud any?

  • And I say, don't trust anything.

  • Distrust, Verify.

  • Stay suspicious.

  • Special in the technology world.

  • So don't trust the cloud but also don't trust local infrastructure either.

  • Don't trust anything.

  • All right, so so have you again.

  • Have your cloud backup have and that that's where infrastructure is.

  • A service comes in because you can add some of these.

  • Cloud service is you can gain that power.

  • You can gain that affordability, but you can do it in specific ways where you're not risking your entire infrastructure yourself.

  • That goes wrong.

  • So this is something to be thinking about.

  • So, really, at the end of the day, when you're looking at the difference between software as a service platform is servicing infrastructure of service.

  • Infrastructure of the service is where you're simply giving a service, and on the face of it, it's just not valuable until you start building it into other things.

  • And when you build it into your offsite backup solution, when you build it into how your traffic gets round when you build it into some kind of compute solution or something like that, that's where I s comes in.

  • So as always, I enjoyed you in this video and look forward to the next one.

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