How Cloud Computing is revolutionizing our business!

Cloud computing gets its name as a symbol of the internet. Normally, the Internet in network diagrams is characterized as a cloud. The cloud icon indicates "all those other things" that make the network work for the rest of the solution map. It also usually means part of the diagram or solution that is concern of another person. Perhaps this idea is most suitable for the perception of cloud computing.

The main advantage of cloud computing is that other company hosts the application. This means that they support the costs of the servers, they provide the software updates and, as per their contract, you have to pay less for the facility.

In this way your capital expenses will be reduced as you will not be buying the servers and thus saving the electricity costs which are required to cool down these servers. It is very useful for people who are usually travelling as they can remotely login and use the applications.

While an Internet outage or problems with your Internet service provider (ISP) are rare, you may not be able to access your applications and do your work. Not that everyone sits in one office much anymore, but if you currently have the application on your own local.

Cloud computing may be useful for the organization in many ways:

• You don’t have to buy and install new equipment. You just have to pay for how much services you are using.

• You have to directly focus on your business rather than taking care of servers.

• Whenever there is new technology, new venders emerge with better services. Reputed companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are considered good service providers because they have reliable services.

• You data is secure and safe with these famous service providers. These vendors have strict privacy policy.

But on the other hand, cloud computing is also not free from problems. When there is internet outage, you will have no access to your applications. This situation could be avoided if you run the application on your own local server. There are also some other hurdles like as more and more advanced applications are being developed, they can’t work on cloud computing with their full capacity.

image credits