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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing involves delivering IT services over the internet at lower costs with scalability. It includes Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Customers access cloud resources on demand from a third party provider rather than owning physical infrastructure themselves. Cloud services can be public, sold to anyone online, or private within a proprietary network. The goal is easy, scalable access to computing power and services.

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing involves delivering IT services over the internet at lower costs with scalability. It includes Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Customers access cloud resources on demand from a third party provider rather than owning physical infrastructure themselves. Cloud services can be public, sold to anyone online, or private within a proprietary network. The goal is easy, scalable access to computing power and services.

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Cloud computing

While using an electric appliance, we never know where the electricity is originating from.
Likewise cloud computing is something which you can use but can’t see. In actual words,
cloud computing is about the delivery of IT services over Internet pipes at dramatically lower
cost, with massive elasticity and scalability.

These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It is sold on demand,
typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic -- a user can have as much or as little of a
service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider (the
consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant
innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-
speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.

A cloud can be private or public. A public cloud sells services to anyone on the Internet.
(Currently, Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud provider.) A private cloud is a
proprietary network or a data centre that supplies hosted services to a limited number of
people. When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create their private cloud,
the result is called a virtual private cloud. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to
provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.

Cloud computing customers do not generally own the physical infrastructure serving as host
to the software platform in question. Instead, they avoid capital expenditure by renting usage
from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources
that they use. For instance a user need not download all the software like MS office required
in his pc. Instead he can rent it from a service provider and use it through cloud computing.

6 layer components of cloud computing


A cloud client consists of computer hardware and/or computer software which relies on
cloud computing for application delivery, or which is specifically designed for delivery of
cloud services and which, in either case, is essentially useless without it.

Cloud infrastructure, such as Infrastructure as a service, is the delivery of computer


infrastructure, typically a platform virtualization environment, as a service.

A cloud platform, such as Platform as a service, the delivery of a computing


platform, and/or solution stack as a service, facilitates deployment of applications
without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware
and software layers. For example:

A cloud service includes products, services and solutions that are delivered and consumed
in real-time over the Internet.

A cloud application leverages the Cloud in software architecture, often eliminating the
need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer, thus alleviating the
burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support.

Device and location independence, Cost-reduction, Multi-tenancy, Reliability,


Scalability, Security and sustainability are some of the major advantages of cloud
computing.

Dell, Vmware, Sun Microsystems, Rackspace US, IBM, Amazon, Google, BMC,
Microsoft, and Yahoo are some of the major cloud computing service providers. Cloud
services are also being adopted by individual users through large enterprises including
Vmware, General Electric, and Procter & Gamble.

It is hoped that lower costs of market entry / application deployment, faster payback on
development costs, and superior return on investment will make cloud-based platforms the
target of choice for both entrepreneurial and enterprise developers in the near future.

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