What is ?Cloud computing??
Let’s have a detailed look on this topic. A cloud can be of two types: Private or Public. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet. For example, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud provider. A private cloud, on the other hand, supplies hosted services to a limited number of people. Thus, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.
As the world is moving ahead towards the growing trend direction, it is very clear that the cloud computing will soon be emerging as a big bang cloud for software development companies and soon we will be able to see various service providers for cloud computing.
Cloud computing technology mainly covers various IT related services such as computing, storage, Network, system security, application, and platform. These services are charged based on the usage.
Some of the future benefits of cloud computing can be listed as:
Latest technologies will be provided in schools, colleges & universities at an affordable price.
Start-up business firms need not invest on IT infrastructure instead they can run their business on the Cloud with an office at home.
Cloud computing even helps a small retailer to send SMS greetings to their customers.
Multimedia digital content can be distributed to various consumers through cloud computing for a lower price.
With the help of cloud computing many new areas in will be discovered and your computing storage will be outsourced to a Cloud Computing Provider.
Every Mobile application development company is also using cloud computing services to develop customized applications/products.
A simple example of cloud computing is yahoo or gmail web-based e-mail services. In order to use these services, we do not require any server or software. Just a simple requirement of internet connection is needed and we get access to our mailbox. We can read as well as send our messages and do many other activities depending upon the functionalities provided by the e-mail service provider. This clearly indicates that how reliable, robust, scalable is the usage of cloud computing. A company can very lead to increase in its business sales with reduced costs by using this consumption based model of cloud computing. Without having a need of getting a software license or server installation, merely, an internet connection can help get a performance based secured way to fulfill your requirement.
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Concepts of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has grown significantly with the growth of the information technology sector. Due to its vast features and benefits it has become a need of the user and most of the IT Support companies as well as software development firms are providing it. The new generation of today has been continuously becoming familiar with the new technology and trends of cloud services and its benefits.
When the computing is delivered through different types of shared resources and software and information is distributed to different computer systems into a network. In this a main server called as a central remote server is used for managing the data and other information. Only an internet connection is required to access the important resources without any installation of any specific application program in order to make access to the data.
All the needed resources such as processing, storage, memory etc are centralized increasing the productivity of the computer system.
We can understand this by many examples like when we use different mailing applications like Gmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, and Hotmail it works without installing any software. We use them only via internet and we use it for mailings and other services offered by them. Cloud computing comprises of three main parts like cloud computing applications, platforms and infrastructure respectively.
Cloud computing applications contain the software that is used in it for delivering various services to the people like email, data storage, chat etc.
Whereas the platforms are the operating system, the applications are installed on it like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows server etc. The infrastructure mainly contains the physical components such as the processor, memory, storage parts, and network connections etc. Most of the organizations of software development are offering cloud services basically of two types:
Public Clouds
It is a free service to the users managed by a third party off-site provider. This provider charges the users on a fine grained utility computing process, it is a traditional way.
Community Clouds
It is a different one than that of a public cloud. Here many firms which have almost same needs share a particular infrastructure. The charges for using the cloud are divided between the cloud members. The level of security of the cloud is high between the community members.
There are two more categories like hybrid and private. Hybrid is a combination of two or more clouds that can be public, community or private. Private cloud is established generally for a single organization for its own use. Many small scale firms in the early stages were not known to cloud services hence it was not so popular to everyone. It has come on a large scale from the last few years. In fact now cloud services have become one of the best affordable IT services.
The author Khalid Kamal is currently working in ProVal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as a Marketing Executive. He is constantly sharing updates about technical services like Server Management and other IT Support by his writings.