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Concepts of Cloud Computing


Cloud computing has grown significantly with the growth of the information technology sector. Due to its vast features and benefits it has become a need of the user and most of the IT support companies as well as software development firms are providing it. The new generation of today has been continuously becoming familiar with the new technology and trends of cloud services and its benefits.
When the computing is delivered through different types of shared resources and software, information is distributed to different computer systems into a network. In this a main server called as a central remote server is used for managing the data and other information. Only an internet connection is required to access the important resources without any installation of any specific application program in order to make access to the data. All the needed resources such as processing, storage, memory etc are centralized increasing the productivity of the computer system.
We can understand this by many examples like when we use different mailing applications like Gmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, and Hotmail it works without installing any software. We use them only via internet and we use it for mailings and other services offered by them. Cloud computing comprises of three main parts like cloud computing applications, platforms and infrastructure respectively.
Cloud computing applications contain the software that is used in it for delivering various services to the people like email, data storage, chat etc. Whereas the platforms are the operating system, the applications are installed on it like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows server etc. The infrastructure mainly contains the physical components such as the processor, memory, storage parts, and network connections etc. Most of the organizations of software development are offering cloud services basically of two types:
Public Clouds:
It is a free service to the users managed by a third party off-site provider. This provider charges the users on a fine grained utility computing process, it is a traditional way.
Community Clouds:
It is a different one than that of a public cloud. Here many firms which have almost same needs share a particular infrastructure. The charges for using the cloud are divided between the cloud members. The level of security of the cloud is high between the community members.
There are two more categories like hybrid and private. Hybrid is a combination of two or more clouds that can be public, community or private. Private cloud is established generally for a single organization for its own use. Many small scale firms in the early stages were not known to cloud services hence it was not so popular to everyone. It has come on a large scale from the last few years. In fact now cloud services have become one of the best affordable IT services.
The author Kamal Khalid is currently working in ProVal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as a Marketing Executive. He is constantly sharing updates about technical services like Server Management and other IT Support by his writings.
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