Objectives of knowledge management

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).
Infrastructure as a 
Service (IaaS)
Hardware used to provide 
support for end- user 
applications is outsourced 
and paid for according 
to level of usage. The 
hardware infrastructure 
used includes servers and 
networks.
PaaS (Platform as a 
Service)
Provision of software 
services for application 
design, development, 
data storage, testing 
and hosting together 
with messaging tools 
for collaboration on the 
development project.
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