Bob Rizika, U.S. CEO of ProfitBricks, and Achim Weiss, CEO of ProfitBricks Germany, provide a look into the future of cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service with a service that is available today.

What makes an advanced IaaS offering today? Here are a few hints:

• Scale-up servers with on-the-fly CPU and RAM elasticity

• By the minute pricing

• Infiniband for 80GBps throughput per server

• Software defined networking

• Replicated Raid10 storage