Techspirit March 2014 Volume 1 | Page 15

March 2014 What is Cloud Computing in simple Let's say you're an executive at a large corporation. Your particular responsibilities include making sure that all of your employees have the right hardware and software they need to do their jobs. Buying computers for everyone isn't enough you also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they require. It's so stressful that you find it difficult to go to sleep on your huge pile of money every night. Soon, there may be an alternative for executives like you. Instead of installing a suite of software for each computer, you'd only have to load one application. That application would allow workers to log into a Webbased service which hosts all the programs the user would need for his or her job. Remote machines owned by another company would run everything from e-mail to word processing to complex data analysis programs. It's called cloud computing, and it could change the entire computer industry. In a cloud computing system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest. Besides this you have to pay only for the time you use the software. So its easy, elastic and affordable. Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud is a service from Adobe Systems that gives users access to the company's suites of software for graphic design, video editing, web development applications, and cloud services. It works on a software as a service model, where the consumers do not purchase a license for a copy of the software, but a ɔ