Gartner defines the infrastructure platform consumption services (IPCS) market as a consumption-based, as-a- service offering for mission-critical infrastructure. IPCS-based offerings need to be native to the platform vendor control plane and must include either storage as a service (STaaS), compute as a service (CaaS) or network as a service (NaaS). They can also support data protection as a service (dPaaS). According to Gartner, IPCS's primary purpose is to provide a platform-services-based infrastructure ...