Cloud Computing
You are probably using cloud computing right now, even if you don’t realise it. If you use an online service to send email, edit documents, watch movies or TV, listen to music, play games or store pictures and other files, it is likely that cloud computing is making it all possible behind the scenes.
The first cloud computing services are barely a decade old, but already a variety of organisations—from tiny startups to global corporations, government agencies to nonprofits—are embracing the technology for all sorts of reasons.
Create Cloud Native Applications
Quickly build, deploy and scale applications—web, mobile and API. Take advantage of cloud-native technologies and approaches, such as containers, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, API-driven communication and DevOps.
Test & Build Applications
Reduce application development cost and time by using cloud infrastructures that can easily be scaled up or down.
Store, Back Up & Recover Data
Protect your data more cost-efficiently—and at massive scale—by transferring your data over the Internet to an offsite cloud storage system that is accessible from any location and any device.
Analyses Data
Unify your data across teams, divisions and locations in the cloud. Then use cloud services, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, to uncover insights for more informed decisions.
Stream Audio & Video
Connect with your audience anywhere, anytime, on any device with high-definition video and audio with global distribution.
Embed Intelligence
Use intelligent models to help engage customers and provide valuable insights from the data captured.
Advantages of Cloud Computing
Lower Cost
Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, the IT experts for managing the infrastructure. It adds up fast.
Speed
Most cloud computing services are provided self service and on demand, so even vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned in minutes, typically with just a few mouse clicks, giving businesses a lot of flexibility and taking the pressure off capacity planning.
Scalable
The benefits of cloud computing services include the ability to scale elastically. In cloud speak, 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.
Productivity
On-site data centers typically require a lot of “racking and stacking”—hardware setup, software patching, and other time-consuming IT management chores. Cloud computing removes the need for many of these tasks, so IT teams can spend time on achieving more important business goals.
Performance
The biggest cloud computing services run on a worldwide network of secure data centers, 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 applications 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.
Types of Cloud Network
Public cloud
With a public cloud, all hardware, software and other supporting infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud provider.
Let’s TalkPrivate Cloud
A private cloud is one in which the services and infrastructure are maintained on a private network of your own company.
Let’s TalkHybrid Cloud
Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, bound together by technology that allows data and applications to be shared.
Let’s TalkPopular Cloud Computing Service Providers
Amazon is the pioneer and leader of the pack with AWS cloud services. AWS has dozens of various cloud based solutions. AWS has various database and file hosting solutions.
Microsoft offers its cloud solutions under the brand name Azure. Azure not only provides solutions based on Microsoft technology but also for open source technologies.
Google offers its cloud hosting solutions by Google Cloud platform. It offers various solutions for machine learning and AI as well using the same technology that Google uses for itself.
IBM Cloud is a full stack cloud platform with over 170 products and services covering data, containers, AI, IoT, and blockchain. You can use your existing infrastructure and migrate to IBM Cloud.