Monday 16 October 2017

Cloud Services and The Options Available for You and Your Business

If cloud computing topic leaves you feeling a bit confused, you are not alone. There are numerous ad campaigns selling cloud solutions as well as tons of analyst reports that will tell you which software publishers have a leg up on competition. It is difficult enough for those who are in the industry of technology services to keep up with the buzz, let alone for some business owners. Your business inevitably can be impacted by the cloud and understanding options is half the battle.

Understanding Various Types of Clouds
Cloud has been around for many years. In late 1900s, when Marc Benioff launched the Salesforce with the mission to “end software” through selling his CRM solution online, his SaaS or Software as a Service model revolutionized the industry and twenty years later his cost savings message and greater agility continues to have wider resonance. This is also the root of some confusion though since the market is saturated with various kinds of cloud services.

With the fact that there are some business applications in the cloud usually referred to as SaaS, you may also buy the infrastructure, which supports such applications in the cloud that’s referred to as IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service. Both IaaS and SaaS can be delivered in hybrid, private or public cloud. So, how can you determine which cloud is good for you?

Public Cloud as a Low Cost Solution
Public cloud allows you to share business app hardware, software, operating system, and data center with all users. As results, it’s a low cost option. You take advantage of the best of breed and an infrastructure process of the provider that lowers capital spend and alleviates your IT department’s pressure. Salesfore, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others have used the concept of public cloud to give smaller businesses an edge with affordable, direct access to leading services and software that could be unobtainable.

Private Cloud as a Flexible, Secure, and High Performance Solution
The model of public cloud has numerous business benefits, yet a downside is potential performance and security risks. In private cloud, the shared component is the infrastructure of the provider. The database and business applications of the company are stored on the virtual layer, essentially making a protective a bubble around your data. Virtual layer is the software that enables the application to use the shared hardware and remain protected.


When the application goes in public cloud, all customers using cloud are experiencing service outage as well. In private cloud, if the application of the customer goes down, it does not affect some users. Moreover, in private cloud, every customer can have its unique security model, enabling stricter access to sensitive applications and data. That is the reason why the market of private cloud is exploding. Even if the private cloud costs more, the increasing numbers of the businesses are choosing them to manage and host their sensitive information and critical workloads that could wreak havoc once breached. The organizations like the ability to integrate and customize software, which makes the model of private cloud attractive to the businesses that require flexibility.

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