CLOUD COMPUTING
Unlike maintaining unused computing capacities in-house, by adapting to cloud computing, firms are able to scale consumption depending on the demand, and thus saving overhead costs.
INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM SOFTWARE
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With the rapid development in communication technologies,‘ Cloud’ has surely become a day today word in the community nowadays. This article aims at giving a wider picture of this concept, commonly known as‘ cloud computing’.
Cloud computing is a term for delivering different levels and types of computing and computer related services over the internet. In other words, maintaining non-local storage and computing facilities to be used as and when required, rather than maintaining infrastructure in-house. The cloud‘ storages’ that you and I use day in and day out are just one aspect of this concept.
By using cloud computing, businesses could gain a lot of benefits. One of the most important benefits is, size flexibility. Unlike maintaining unused computing capacities in-house, by adapting to cloud computing, firms are able to scale consumption depending on the demand, and thus saving overhead costs. In addition, easy access to updated technologies and resources gives an edge for businesses to stay in the competition.
From the viewpoint of the business entities, usually they have a different concern; that is, the security and privacy. As advantageous as it seems, even small security and privacy flaws are not going to be things that the businesses are going to risk. Hence, the following types of cloud computing have originated; private, public and hybrid.
In‘ public clouds’, a third party provider sells the service, typically on a time basis. Some organizations currently offering these kinds of services are, Amazon Web Services( AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine.
In‘ private clouds’, businesses get the service from dedicated internal data centers, with which they can withhold the control and security of data as well as operations.
‘ Hybrid clouds’, as the name suggests, is a combination of public and private cloud services. To explain further, companies use private clouds for their sensitive information and operations while they also use public clouds for secondary operations to scale the workload against demand.
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