Comport Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS

Buying servers, storage, networking, and data center space is expensive and slow. In contrast, IaaS enables you to quickly add servers to respond to short-term demand, seasonal spikes, or business growth. When the resources are not required, you can release them.

It becomes simple to expand into new regions or establish multi-geographic redundancy, supporting business growth and customer experience. This means your teams spend less effort on infrastructure management and more time building the business.

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On-premises, fully owned hardware and software can create security and performance challenges as they age. Hardware breaks and server software support ends, increasing the risks of downtime and costly maintenance windows.

With IaaS, you get access to newer technology when you need it, without using CapEx or tracking depreciation on old assets. Pay-as-you-go models reduce costs for underutilized infrastructure including cloud-based computing, storage, and networking resources.

Not all workloads require the newest, more expensive GPUs or fastest access storage. Comport works with you to create a plan that balances workload requirements, budgets, and cloud resources.

The global average cost of a data breach is $4.4M, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report. While the average cost of a cyberattack on SMBs is smaller, they are at higher risk of shuttering following a cybersecurity breach. In on-premises models, IT teams are responsible for maintaining infrastructure security including researching and manually applying all security patches. They’re also responsible for planning and executing migrations when hardware and software reach the end of their support life.

IaaS environments operate under shared responsibility models, where the provider is responsible for infrastructure patches. This frees up teams to focus on core business applications and competencies.

An inadequate understanding of your technical environment and a lack of a tailored strategy for business goals increases the odds that a cloud or IaaS project will fail to deliver on cost savings, performance, or project timelines. Gartner has predicted that 25% of organizations will have experienced significant dissatisfaction with their cloud adoption “due to unrealistic expectations, suboptimal implementation and/or uncontrolled costs.” Conducting sufficient discovery and creating a clear cloud strategy before your project begins is the best defense against cost overruns, late implementations, and mismatched capabilities.

Comport’s Cloud Readiness Assessment provides you with the data, insights, and recommendations to ensure your cloud and IaaS strategy are tailored to your technical environment and needs. Comport begins with a comprehensive cloud assessment rooted in the principles of cloud physics—understanding how applications behave, how resources scale, and how performance, cost, and resilience are interconnected. By evaluating workload patterns, dependencies, and operational realities, the assessment reveals where inefficiencies exist and how to optimize for agility, security, and cost control. The result is a clear, data-driven path to a cloud and IaaS strategy that performs the way your business actually operates, not the way a generic model assumes.

During the Cloud Readiness Assessment, you’ll have a Comport resource dedicated to learning your environment for five days. The process looks like this: