Experience The New World Of Cloud Computing

Basically cloud computing is a type of computing in which resources, information and applications are supervised in virtual environment. The word “cloud” particularly indicate the structure and nature of the cloud computing. Cloud computing consist of virtual hosted environment which let users to connect to the services which hosted on the internet. One of the best example of cloud computing is Google Apps. As organizations no need to install any word processing software, any in house email servers, many IT or networking professionals, and above all it is cost saving. Google Apps gives access to all the services like: emailing, website hosting, Word or Excel document creation or editing, and a lot more directly with the help of a web browser. The advantages of using cloud computing is that it increases productivity, security, cuts down your IT costs and data backup.

Different Variations Of Cloud Computing:

1. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

What is actually infrastructure as a service? You basically outsourced and you do not need to expend on costly equipments. Instead of expending on such costly equipments like: servers, hard drives, and other networking equipment, get the services of any good cloud management company and save your money.

2. PaaS (Platform as a Service)

All the applications work on the cloud server need to be hosted on cloud servers. Any of the organization who is selling cloud applications should use PaaS to "host" the sold applications and will require running them on cloud servers instead of an in-house server.

3. SaaS (Software as a Service)

Cloud applications are not sold in bulk licenses; you always pay for cloud applications or cloudmanagement software on per user basis. This help out small business very well as they do not need to purchase licenses for applications they might rarely use. They do not need to purchase 10 or 15 licenses they only pay when they need to use that software.

What making this newly implemented technology very popular is the customized environment of cloud computing. It is modernizing the techniques on which networking and daily computing is run. Without any doubt cloud computing is bringing a great change for both the users and for cloud companies.

Cloud Computing Disadvantages

While there are so many advantages of cloud computing but there are also some disadvantages of cloud computing, in particular to online storage and user applications. An organization which uses cloud computing to host their email, Word or Excel documents, and other applications can experience a shut down if Cloud Company has any downtime ever. This is something that actually happened in 2009, when Gmail and Google Apps were down at the same time for many hours. After this incident confidence in cloud computing stalled a bit, but after that Google has assured it will not happen again in the future. There are more than 1million users around the world that are using Google Apps services and there is no-doubt that they are the leader in cloud computing applications.

Benefits Of Cloud Computing

I think advantages of the cloud computing are more than the disadvantages. As more and more technologies are developing in cloud computing, so the disadvantages are gradually becoming obsolete. I must say that cloud computing is in its early age and many new technologies in cloud computing are growing, so I am pretty sure one day we all will be using the cloud and desktop computing or In-house IT hosting will become a past.