Cloud Computing Services: Better Utilization Of Computing Resources
Technological innovations have made computer infrastructure and services available on demand. The infrastructure may include a hard disk, development platform, and database, computing power or even software applications. Cloud computing is the most recent technological innovation, which is changing the way, computing resources is being utilized.
Early understanding of the benefits of the cloud computing technology has led many industry leaders to tie up with technology companies to create cloud based services, and delivery platforms. These organizations with their cloud initiatives collaborate with global organizations as cloud partners and offer a number of competency-based services under the cloud computing services portfolio. These include services such as Cloud Assessment, Implementation, Migration and Cloud Service Management for Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud.
As organizations decide to opt for virtualization and managed security services through the cloud, understanding the types of cloud network becomes very important. The options available for cloud computing include
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Public Cloud – an external metered service similar to data centers accessible through web based applications or web services, where the infrastructure is shared between numbers of organizations.
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Private cloud – a private network in the cloud which is externally placed or placed within the premises and is exclusive for an organization.
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Hybrid cloud- the combination of both public and private cloud and is dependent on the applications used by the organizations.
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Community cloud is the network that is shared by a similar type of organizations i.e organizations with similar mission, security requirements, and policies or compliance requirements. Community cloud may be managed by the organizations or outsourced and may exist on premise or off the premises.
Depending on the type of services required, the Cloud Computing Services providers offers their clientele hardware related services such as disk storage and virtual servers referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), development platforms and Testing environments referred to as Enterprise Platform as a Service (EPaaS) and Software services or SaaS. For the business organizations, partnering with service providers with a worldwide presence and partner ecosystem gives them the best possible value and ROI on cloud investments.
These cloud computing service providers also provide their clientele cloud consulting & assessment services for scalability and adherence to current ITIL IT outsourcing services. The Implementation & Migration services help customers with analysis of monitoring and management tools in adopting the type of cloud environment, creation of private clouds with features such as infrastructure virtualization, data center hosting, on-demand storage and data redundancy as well as migration from private to public cloud.
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