Cloud Computing: Introduction
The word “cloud” has become a cliché of our generation over the last decade. While it existed from the time of modern emails, the term “cloud computing” came into existence much later.
The boom in cloud computing has led to many technological innovations , many have heard it but only a few have fully understood its complete meaning and its implications. This issue of SWENEWS attempts to clarify all the issues of cloud computing in a simple and interesting way.
According to NIST , Cloud computing means that instead of all the computer hardware and software you're using sitting on your desktop, or somewhere inside your company's network, it's provided for you as a service by another company and accessed over the Internet, usually in a completely seamless way. Exactly where the hardware and software is located and how it all works doesn't matter to you, the user—it's just somewhere up in the nebulous "cloud" that the Internet represents.
While this looks good to read , hardly 10% of the people would be able to grasp its meaning in full. With the help of articles from professors from our school and various examples from all over the industry , our SWENEWS team will try to break the whole notion of “cloud computing” to better your understanding of the topic.
Due to the global economic downturn , more and more organizations were trying to cut costs and cloud computing came out to be the perfect solution. It is basically highly scalable computing resources provided as an external service via the internet. The cloud is simply a metaphor for internet. Economically, the main appeal of cloud computing is that customers only use what they need, and only pay for what they actually use. Resources are available to be accessed from the cloud at any time, and from any location via the internet. It saves you the worry about how things are being maintained behind the scenes – you simply purchase the IT service you require. That is why it is also known as ‘IT on demand’. It utilises remote servers housed in highly secure data centres for data storage and management.
The boom in cloud computing has led to many technological innovations , many have heard it but only a few have fully understood its complete meaning and its implications. This issue of SWENEWS attempts to clarify all the issues of cloud computing in a simple and interesting way.
According to NIST , Cloud computing means that instead of all the computer hardware and software you're using sitting on your desktop, or somewhere inside your company's network, it's provided for you as a service by another company and accessed over the Internet, usually in a completely seamless way. Exactly where the hardware and software is located and how it all works doesn't matter to you, the user—it's just somewhere up in the nebulous "cloud" that the Internet represents.
While this looks good to read , hardly 10% of the people would be able to grasp its meaning in full. With the help of articles from professors from our school and various examples from all over the industry , our SWENEWS team will try to break the whole notion of “cloud computing” to better your understanding of the topic.
Due to the global economic downturn , more and more organizations were trying to cut costs and cloud computing came out to be the perfect solution. It is basically highly scalable computing resources provided as an external service via the internet. The cloud is simply a metaphor for internet. Economically, the main appeal of cloud computing is that customers only use what they need, and only pay for what they actually use. Resources are available to be accessed from the cloud at any time, and from any location via the internet. It saves you the worry about how things are being maintained behind the scenes – you simply purchase the IT service you require. That is why it is also known as ‘IT on demand’. It utilises remote servers housed in highly secure data centres for data storage and management.