at the right time to bring new innovative services to customers and partners with greater speed and at less cost. 

## Getting Started with IaaS and PaaS 

How do companies decide on the best fitting cloud model for their business strategies? To begin their cloud journeys, companies may select a few starting points. 

## Private IaaS for development and test 

An insurance company wants to add a new service for a dedicated team of independent agents. A lot of personal customer information is stored in the application so the company needs to maintain a high level of security and control. They also expect to ramp up this new service very quickly and want to make sure they have the capacity both for ongoing testing and production. The private IaaS model provides the company with predictability and scalability while at the same time minimizing security risk. 

## Public IaaS for development and test 

A leading retail bank needs to evaluate new technologies and solution platforms without investing in costly IT architecture. The testing environment for the new initiative was migrated to the secure public cloud based on a combination of the private IaaS service and the PaaS environment. The team needs to test its application for scalability with an expected one million concurrent users. The extra capacity from the secure public IaaS shortened total build times by enabling testing operations to leverage a highly-scalable, secure, and well-managed infrastructure. The business gets to market faster while keeping budgetary constraints under control. 

