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IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

. Through reduced infra-

structure spending and avoiding building new data centre facilities, the company expected to save nearly 

$200 million. This was achieved through improving its server utilisation rate from 59% in the first half of 

2006 to 80% in 2010.

The technical teams within Intel also applied the 

PaaS (Platform as a Service)

 concept as part of the 

initiative. The platform referred to is the specific type of SaaS for developing new software and hardware as 

part of a systems development project.

Source: Adapted from CIO (2010).