Suppose your work profile in the company includes providing all the software and hardware to the employees. Buying computers for everyone isn’t enough — you also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they require. Whenever, a new hire comes on board you end up spending a huge amount of money getting the licenses, installing them and going through a repeat process. So, what is the way out?
Cloud is the way to go. You all have used the cloud knowingly or unknowingly. If you have Gmail, Hotmail or any other popular mailing service then you have used the Cloud. TheApplication allows workers to log into a Web-based 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. According to Wikipedia “The term “cloud” is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network, and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents. Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online which are accessed from another web service or software like a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.“ I found the simplest definitions of Cloud computing on the Sun Blog:
This is the first in my series of posts which will try and demystify the confusions about Cloud. The next few in the series will discuss why you should use Cloud Computing, what are its advantages and disadvantages, what are the various forms of Cloud Computing and more.
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