Archive for the “Cloud Computing” Category

Private Cloud

Private Cloud is simply a cloud solution which provides hosting services,  offering the ability to increase or decrease computing resources according to it´s customer´s evolving needs and ensuring infinite resources scalability. Customers will have to pay according to those customized resources in use.

Private cloud computing is designed for customers who need to have full controll over their data using third party hosting or storage services.

Cloud computing is the future since it ischeaper and faster to use apps, it can be accessed from anywhare at anytime.

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Origins of the Cloud

It all started with huge ISP such as google and that´s where a new architecture was born. This became the new way to use distributed resources through the internet. Although similar to grid computing, cloud computing does not fail if one of its many pieces happen to fail.

Cloud computing is the result of the improved deficiencies of grid computing. When companies who wish to outsource their data center infrastructure can scale up(scalability) to their current needs and without investing in it. Customer actually don´t even care about how things work inside the cloud since he can access his data from anywhere.

Cloud computing is also environmentally friendly because there´s less hardware and less energy consumption.

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Cloud Services

Software as a Service (SaaS)

It´s a distribution model in which an IT company provides software support and maintenance to it´s customer.

A customer can access his company´s information from anywhere in the world at any time as well as remote application access.

SaaS does not require patching from final users since it works with centralized upgrades.

An SaaS customer does not require a specialized area fot it´s system support.

IT providers guarantee the customer´s applications correct functionality and availability at any time.

SaaS does not require a customer to buy a software license, a customer will just need to pay for software usage. Customers can also choose their own OS.

Platform as a Service(PaaS)

PaaS takes over the complete applications development and implementation cycle from the web. PaaS is abele to get applications to work  in one single process.

PaaS also ensures system scalability so the developer can manage as many users when they need their applications and keeping system security at the same time. Sharing source code between several developers spreaded worldwide improves the developers team work.

A PaaS provider will take care of all the basic software requirements so developers start innovating in no time.

As a result of all this, customers do not require new hardware or software since putting an application online takes no effort at all once the development process completed.

Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)

This model allows customers resource scalability.Anytime components are about to be scaled up or down the service keeps the same.

IaaS is the new and powerful way to work with servers. Servers can be used simultaneously by more than one OS. Remote datacenters are administrated by programs. This allows the control of numerous processes.

Customers pay only for the resources they need.

By using several datacenters online service is always available.

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Why Cloud?

1. Offers more speed for the value
During the economic recession, time for value becomes critical. Companies reject projects that don’t have an investment return in a matter of weeks. With Cloud Computing, time is accelerated because it is optimized in all stages of the lifecycle in the development of applications. This allow developers to cut time and immediately start working on a project.

2. Doesn’t require up-front capital expenses
The development platforms of Cloud Computing are based in prices of subscription. Thus, capital expenses are not needed to start projects. Companies can practically start without initial costs to develop projects. Payments are taken care are a service or exploitation expense, instead of a capital expense.

3. Minimize operation costs
With Cloud Computing there’s no need to buy starter hardware or software. The most important thing is that it reduces all maintenance requirement for equipment and the IT technicians can dedicate their time to develop projects without delays.

4. Simplifies integration
Cloud Computing makes integration faster, easier and less riskier than before. This translates into an easier way to integrate and expand hereditary surroundings and having sets of tools for cloud services like facebook, google, amazon, etc.

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