Cloud computing services

Cloud Computing Advantages

The cloud enables anyone with an internet connection to access IT resources on-demand, such as those consumed by cloud-based applications. The basic resources available are compute,, and networking, all of which are needed for a business critical application to deliver a full experience.

Cloud Computing TechnologyPublic, Private, and Hybrid Clouds

There are three types of clouds based on who is hosting the cloud and managing its underlying infrastructure: they are private, public, and hybrid.

Services typically fall into one of three categories:

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS): A subscription-based licensing of software that is centrally hosted
• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS): a computing platform for developing or hosting applications
• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS): an entire networking or computing infrastructure

Private cloud services are built by enterprises for use by their employees and partners only and are often on-premises data centers.

Hybrid cloud services combine the two to provide the benefits of a private cloud’s direct control and a public cloud’s speed and scalability.

Virtualization

Virtualization technology is key because it allows physical servers, storage, and networking services to be partitioned on demand using software. This is accomplished through

Cost Shift

The financial challenge of an on-premises data center is the capex that goes into creating, fixing, and updating the hardware in it, often involving substantial overprovisioning of resources to ensure the data center can handle traffic spikes. This is in addition to the opex of energy bills and paying personnel to operate and monitor the data center.

Using the cloud reduces the capex costs, replacing them with opex costs as part of the service subscription. This means that costs better reflect actual infrastructure use and infrastructure upgrade costs can be more easily absorbed into operating budgets.

Scalability

While an on-premises data center has the ability to scale (especially when using, it can’t compare to a public environment. When a company is subscribed to a cloud service, it can easily scale resources up and down as needed.

Resource Management

A key takeaway from all this is that cloud computing and networking allows companies to improve resource management from infrastructure to personal. Resources can be procured, paid for, and used with greater specificity.tools allow organizations to watch resource use and adjust their usage so they aren’t paying for unused resources.

Cloud Computing DisadvantagesControl of Infrastructure

By using a cloud, a company gives up substantial control over its IT infrastructure. The organization cannot be certain that the quality of maintenance and amount of attention given to the infrastructure is on par with what the company would strive for. If a problem does arise, a customer may not be able to address the problem themselves and may feel a bit helpless as they wait for the problem to be solved by someone else.

Security

Building on the loss of control, can be challenging in a public cloud, not just because of the physical security of the data center, but because of potential poor server neighbors who can bring in malicious software that affects other customers.

If a company handles sensitive information, it is often considered a best practice to maintain an on-premise data center or private cloud in order to comply with regulations.

With customers that are using infrastructure-, platform-, or SaaS offerings from cloud providers, the customers are responsible for aspects of security to attempt to avoid a bad neighbor situation — by having everyone do their part. But the loss of control and lack of inherent trust for other customers is a cause for concern about the security of the cloud.

Network Connection Dependency

Networks go down from time to time. It’s unavoidable. When they go down, organizations that are reliant on the cloud for software, coding platforms, or their entire infrastructure, are left either partly or entirely unable to work.

This downtime means companies lose money, which impacts their business goals, as well as the larger economy, to varying degrees.

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