Wednesday 5 November 2014

What is the hype called Cloud Computing?

In today’s world very few of us go physically to banks to operate our accounts. Most of us prefer to operate it right from the comforts of our homes or offices, because we find an ease in doing so.


Similarly in the IT sphere, cloud computing is the Rock star of the present genre. Everyone is going ga-ga over it, all due to benefits galore in its offerings to its consumers.


Now cloud computing comes in 2 flavours – SaaS i.e. Software as a Service; and IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service. In SaaS, the enterprise applications along with the related data are hosted on the service providers shared or dedicated servers depending upon your subscription. This service carries a monthly fee to be paid by the users. Whereas in IaaS applications it is more consumer and pocket friendly with pay as you use options available to the users. The service provider offers virtual as well as physical servers along with other connectivity resources to run your applications on. You have the liberty of managing the applications and operating systems on your own. 

The major benefit is that you don’t have to incur capital expenditure and block your hard earned money. There is greater flexibility to concentrate on your business and future prospects in managing ups and downs in business trends.

Saving of human resources is another benefit that one gets while opting for the Cloud Computing services. These are some of the major reasons for the hype in today’s IT World towards Cloud Computing.

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