CLOUD SERVICES

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Whether you are using it to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or to support business critical operations, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. With cloud computing, you don’t need to make large upfront investments in hardware and spend a lot of time on the heavy lifting of managing that hardware. Instead, you can provision exactly the right type and size of computing resources you need to power your newest idea or operate your IT department. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use.

Types of Clouds in Cloud Computing

Agility

The cloud allows you to innovate faster because you can focus your valuable IT resources on developing applications that differentiate your business and transform customer experiences rather than managing infrastructure and data centers. With cloud, you can quickly spin up resources as you need them, deploying hundreds or even thousands of servers in minutes.

Elasticity

Before cloud computing, you had to overprovision infrastructure to ensure you had enough capacity to handle your business operations at the peak level of activity. Now, you can provision the amount of resources that you actually need, knowing you can instantly scale up or down with the needs of your business. This reduces costs and improves your ability to meet your users’ demands.

Deploy globally in minutes

With the cloud, you can easily deploy your application in multiple physical locations around the world with just a few clicks. This means you can provide a lower latency and better experience for your customers simply and at minimal cost.

Cost savings

The cloud allows you to trade capital expense (data centers, physical servers, etc.) for variable expense and only pay for IT as you consume it. Plus, the variable expense is much lower than what you can do for yourself because of the larger economies of scale.

Types of Clouds in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has takes over the Information technology world at a high speed. Cloud computing comes in 3 major forms: private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. Based on the kind of data that one works with, you can compare and use private, public or hybrid clouds with respect to the various levels of management and security needed. Let’s look into what each one is:

Private Cloud

TA Private Cloud is implemented using a dedicated data center infrastructure of hardware and software that is used privately by an organization. The data center can be on-premises or off-premises. It is not shared with another organization. If the data center is shared, then its called a Virtual Private Cloud. The Cloud Computing Stack in a Private Cloud is dedicated to the organization. If the data center is shared but not the Cloud Computing Stack, that is a Virtual Private Cloud. When both the Cloud Computing Stack and the data center are shared, then it becomes a Public Cloud. A Private Cloud may participate in a Hybrid Cloud.

Public Cloud

A Public Cloud is implemented using a shared data center infrastructure of hardware and software that is shared by multiple organizations. The data center is generally off-premises. The Cloud Computing Stack in a Public Cloud is also shared with other organizations. The data, however, for each organization is kept separate. If the data center is shared but not the Cloud Computing Stack, that is a Virtual Private Cloud. When neither the Cloud Computing Stack nor the data center is shared, then that is known as a Private Cloud. A Public Cloud may participate in a Hybrid Cloud.

Hybrid Cloud

A Hybrid Cloud is any combination of Clouds. It could be a Private Cloud and one or more Public Clouds. Similarly it could be a Virtual Private Cloud and one or more Public Clouds. But this is so much more than just multiple Clouds. There has got to be resources that are shared among the Clouds. An example of this is Cloud Bursting.Hybrid cloud computing is a “best of all possible worlds” platform, delivering all the benefits of cloud computing—flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiencies—with the lowest possible risk of data exposure.The primary benefit of a hybrid cloud is agility.