Be Agile, Shift to Cloud!

Digital technologies have led to exciting new opportunities for businesses, giving them the opportunity to offer more value to their customers with innovative products and services.  Cloud computing is no exception. Cloud computing can be defined as flexible and scalable computing services accessible through the Internet on demand. It essentially means that software, networking, servers and entire platforms are obtainable in the cloud. Several abbreviations have been made, such as SaaS for software as a service, PaaS for platform as a service and IaaS for infrastructure.

Businesses are shifting office productivity applications for instance, word processors to the cloud to reduce expenses on individual licensing of software. Data center managers consider the cloud to be a means to lower server acquisition and support costs, allowing them to concentrate more on actual business challenges. 

Infrastructure as a Cloud Service

Infrastructure could involve a range of things, such as server hardware and software, networking and storage. By transferring the administration and support of servers to the cloud, you can cut costs for the company and make the servers accessible anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection. Vendors who offer cloud computing solutions build virtual servers on large hardware platforms to enable them to scale up or down swiftly and accommodate a high number of customers on a single piece of server hardware. This accomplishes the economies of scale that are beyond the reach of the typical data center, no matter if the data center was highly virtualized in the first place. This is particularly helpful for businesses that have erratic loads on their computing infrastructures. 

The Future of Cloud Computing

Just like the Internet, cloud computing is here for the long haul. The anytime, anyplace computing services that it delivers will keep growing. ISaaS or Infrastructure security as a service is already being employed to enable the cloud vendor to manage all authentications to the customers’ network.

This offers customers a level of cushioning from entry to the network directly from the Internet, which is normally the cause of a host of issues faced by corporate networks. As vendors go on competing with each other they will keep on developing new service models and cloud computing solutions will become as universal as the Internet.