A utility company is designing a new platform that will host all the virtual machines used by business applications. The requirements include: • A starting baseline of 50% memory utilization • Storage scalability • Single circuit failure resilience Which of the following best meets all of these requirements?

Transitioning to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider best meets all requirements. IaaS platforms offer elastic scalability for storage, allowing the utility company to expand as needed without upfront hardware purchases. They also inherently provide high availability and resilience against single circuit failures through redundant infrastructure and geographical distribution. The 50% memory utilization baseline can be managed by configuring appropriate virtual machine sizes and scaling policies within the IaaS environment. Connecting dual PDUs to redundant power supplies addresses power redundancy but not storage scalability or overall platform resilience. Configuring network load balancing improves network path resilience but doesn't address memory utilization or storage. Deploying multiple large NAS devices provides storage but lacks the comprehensive resilience and scalability of an IaaS solution.