What is meant by cloud computing?
Let’s start with the name. What is the origin of the word ‘cloud’? When the internet was in it’s infancy the word ‘cloud’ was used as a metaphor to describe how the complex telephone networks connected.
But what exactly is it? Cloud is a model of computing where servers, networks, storage, development tools, and even applications (apps) are enabled through the internet.
Types of Cloud Computing:
There are three types of clouds: public, private, and hybrid. Each type requires a different level of management from the customer and provides a different level of security.
Public Cloud
In a public cloud, the entire computing infrastructure is located on the premises of the cloud provider, and the provider delivers services to the customer over the internet. Customers do not have to maintain their own IT and can quickly add more users or computing power as needed. In this model, multiple tenants share the cloud provider’s IT infrastructure.
Private Cloud:
A private cloud is used exclusively by one organization. It could be hosted at the organization’s location or at the cloud provider’s data center. A private cloud provides the highest level of security and control.
Hybrid Cloud
As the name suggests, a hybrid cloud is a combination of both public and private clouds. Generally, hybrid cloud customers host their business-critical applications on their own servers for more security and control, and store their secondary applications at the cloud provider’s location.
Multi Cloud
The main difference between hybrid cloud and multicloud is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage devices in a single architecture.
Cloud Computing Services:
There are three main types of cloud services: software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to cloud; it’s more about finding the right solution to support your business requirements.
SaaS
SaaS is a software delivery model in which the cloud provider hosts the customer’s applications at the cloud provider’s location. The customer accesses those applications over the internet. Rather than paying for and maintaining their own computing infrastructure, SaaS customers take advantage of subscription to the service on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Many businesses find SaaS to be the ideal solution because it enables them to get up and running quickly with the most innovative technology available. Automatic updates reduce the burden on in-house resources. Customers can scale services to support fluctuating workloads, adding more services or features they grow. A modern cloud suite provides complete software for every business need, including customer experience, customer relationship management, customer service, enterprise resource planning, procurement, financial management, human capital management etc.
PaaS
PaaS gives customers the advantage of accessing the developer tools they need to build and manage mobile and web applications without investing in—or maintaining—the underlying infrastructure. The provider hosts the infrastructure and middleware components, and the customer accesses those services via a web browser.
To aid productivity, PaaS solutions need to have ready-to-use programming components that allow developers to build new capabilities into their applications, including innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The right PaaS offering also should include solutions for analysts, end users, and professional IT administrators, including big data analytics, content management, database management, systems management and security.
IaaS
IaaS enables customers to access infrastructure services on an on-demand basis via the internet. The key advantage is that the cloud provider hosts the infrastructure components that provide compute, storage, and network capacity so that subscribers can run their workloads in the cloud. The cloud subscriber is usually responsible for installing, configuring, securing, and maintaining any software on the cloud native solutions, such as database, middleware and application software.
What is cloud server?
A cloud server is essentially storage; a one-stop means of storing all your business data and programs on a remote server that is accessible over the internet.
Cloud server hosting performs all the same functions of a traditional physical server, delivering processing power, storage and applications but provide a centralized server resource that is hosted and delivered over a network (the internet), which can be accessed on demand by multiple users. It is best imagined as a combination of electronic structures that store data, information, applications and more, across different locations and computers.
All the information your business needs is united and synced in one place, meaning you can be more proactive and work on-the-go; liaising with customers, suppliers and colleagues with the resources you need, whenever you need them.
Advantages of Cloud Based storage include:
On the whole, Cloud Technology is here to stay. Businesses need to leverage this technology and grow with it. The technology is both powerful and inspiring. In the long run, it proves to be a cost-effective way of executing services for many businesses, both big and small. Since cloud computing enjoys a bigger scope, mainly in terms of reach ability, it is bound to have a awe-inspiring future. Find out more about our cloud solutions by getting in touch with one of our experts today!
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