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Summer20201

Peer to Peer: ILTA's Quarterly Magazine

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13 I L T A N E T . O R G applications (the virtualization hypervisor). Furthermore, this different analogy highlights key reasons why firms consider moving servers and applications to cloud platforms. In an IaaS platform, firms desire to keep control over their virtual servers and applications, perhaps even building their own applications to meet their specific needs. That said, they do not want to manage the technology plumbing – the physical servers, storage, networking, etc. With pizza, this is the same as making your favorite pizza with all of your premium ingredients, homemade sauce, and all the toppings you want but then bringing it to a pizza place to use their coal-fired oven for the most authentic taste. You did not want to buy and maintain that coal-fired oven yourself but rather leverage it when needed to give you the best possible results for your pizza. This alternate analogy also includes a key aspect of cloud services that is absent from the original one – consumption. In a SaaS model, an end user must only consume whatever service or application is presented. The firm is responsible for payment, but the end user is who consumes the service. In the original pizza analogy, there was no indication of anything that the end user would do. In the alternate analogy, eating the pizza (truly consumption) is the only responsibility assigned to the end user. Regardless of the analogy used, comparing cloud platforms to pizza can be an entertaining and effective way to explain the key differences between those platforms and make you hungry at the same time. ILTA Joe Hoegler is the Chief Technology Innovation Officer in the New York office of Kraft Kennedy and Practice Group Leader of the firm's Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Practice Group. Joe provides technical leadership and strategic guidance on client engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies and is responsible for directing technology strategy and providing technical management at the firm.

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