What is Cloud computing?

Cloud computing is the delivery of different services through the Internet. These resources include tools and applications like servers, data storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence over the internet.

You typically pay only for the cloud services you use, this helps lower you operating costs, run your Infrastructure more efficiently to scale as your business needs change.

Advantages of Cloud Computing:

• Cost

• Eliminates the capital expenses of buying hardware and software and setup cost and maintenance on site data centers.

• Speed

• On demand service, so vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned in minutes.

• Global Scale

• delivering the right amount of IT resources when it is needed and from the right geographic location

• Productivity

• By Reducing the Data centers setup, patching and other maintenance activity/tasks, IT Team can spend time on achieving more important business goals.

• Performance

• The latest generation of fast and efficient hardware increase the benefits of reduced network latency for applications and greater economies of scale

• Reliability

• Data backup, Disaster recovery and business continuity and less expensive because data can be mirrored at multiple redundant sites on the cloud providers network

• Security

• Cloud security protect to help your data, apps ad infrastructure from potential threats.

Types of Cloud Computing:

There are three different ways to deploy cloud services:1. Public Cloud, 2. Private Cloud, 3. Hybrid Cloud.

1. Public Cloud: 

Public clouds are owned by a third party cloud service providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Service(AWS), Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud Services, Adobe Creative Cloud, VMware, etc., which deliver their computing resources like servers, software, storage and other supporting infrastructure over the internet.  These services will be owned and managed by the cloud provider and we can access these services and mange our account using a web browser.

2. Private Cloud:

A Private cloud computing is used exclusively by a single business or organisation. A Private cloud can be physically located on the company's on-site data center. With the private cloud service infrastructure are maintained on a private network.

3. Hybrid Cloud:

Hybrid clouds is a combination of private and public clouds, bound together by technology that allows data and applications to be shared between them. This service gives your business more flexibility, more deployment options and helps to optimize your existing infrastructure, security and compliance.