Answer Description
Your CIO is looking for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This model aims to automate the provisioning and creation of infrastructure like physical servers, networks and virtual machines. Most commonly an IaaS vendor will provide a virtual machine with a pre-installed operating system and provide access to you to configure based on your needs.
Wikipedia
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are online services that provide high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup etc A hypervisor, such as Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, Oracle VM, KVM, VMware ESX/ESXi, or Hyper-V, LXD, runs the virtual machines as guests Pools of hypervisors within the cloud operational system can support large numbers of virtual machines and the ability to scale services up and down according to customers' varying requirements
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