What is Cloud Computing?

 


Cloud computing is the delivery of computer resources which includes servers, storages, databases, networking, software and many more services. The main purpose of cloud computing is to offer innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You only pay for the services you use thus reducing the cost of operating and thus helping you to run your infrastructure more efficiently and scale your business needs change.

Top benefits of cloud computing

  • Cost

Cloud computing eliminates the  capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenter. You only have to pay for the services which you use. You can also minus the cost of the IT administrator, power supply and hardware and software loss over the time.

  • Speed
Speed in cloud computing

Most of the computing services are self serviced and  on demand so even vast amount of computing resources can be provisioned into just a few click and within a couple of minutes, giving businesses a lot of flexibility and taking the pressure of capacity planning. 
  • Global Scale
The benefits of cloud computing services include the ability to scale your business elastically with just a few clicks. In cloud world that means delivering the right amount of IT resources - for example, more or less computing power, storage, bandwidth - right when it is needed and from the right geographic location. Cloud is present all over the world.
  • Productivity
Productivity in cloud computing

On-site datacenters requires a lot of management - hardware setup, software patching, and time consuming IT management chores. Cloud computing removers the need of many of these tasks, so IT team can spend more time on business specific goals rather than putting their head into rack of servers.
  • Performance
The biggest cloud computing service runs on a worldwide network of secure datacenters, which are regularly upgraded to the latest generation of fast and efficient computing hardware. This offers several benefits over a single corporate datacenter, including reduced network latency for application and greater economies of scale.

  • Reliability
Cloud computing makes data backup, disaster recovery and business continuity easier and less expensive because data can be mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud provider's network.
  • Security
security in cloud computing

Many cloud providers offer a broad set of policies, technologies, and control that strengthen your security posture overall, helping protect your data, apps and infrastructure from potential threats.














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