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Cloud Computing Explained: Buy a Car Vs Rent a Car
Owning hardware = Owning a car
When you own a car, you have to make your monthly payment no matter how many (or few) miles you drive. On top of that, you have to pay for gas, oil changes, wiper blades, car washes, parts and service, and everything else you need to keep the car running. The same goes for owning a server ”you are on the hook for absolutely everything, from hardware and upgrades to electricity.
Cloud computing = Taking a Taxi
On the other hand, when you take advantage of cloud computing, it's like taking a taxi – all you pay for is the mileage, which in this case is the amount of storage space used,vdata processed and transmitted.
From our point of view, if you strip away all of the jargon around cloud computing, it basically means that the software you use isn’t on your own personal or work computer. It’s somewhere else. It could be anywhere. You pretty much use it through a web browser, a mobile phone, a laptop, or a tablet. Simply put, your data is stored someplace else. This is how your email works if you use Gmail, YAHOO Mail, or your company mail. It’s also how your online banking works. Your banking information isn’t on your own computer. It’s stored in the “cloud,” so to speak, at your bank.
The most common question we are asked by our clients (Specially when we ask them to deploy their content on Servers for scalable learning model) "Is it safe?"
The misperception is that if you have your data stored locally, it’s safer than if you have it stored in the cloud. In fact, it’s usually easier for a motivated person to get into your home network, or to pose as a cleaning person and take your computer right off your desk. If your data is stored by reputable companies/servers, I think it’s more secure than on your own computer these days. We used to worry about credit card transactions over the internet, and now most of us don’t worry about buying a product from Amazon, eBay or even Indian sites such as IRCTC, naukri, bookmyshow or similar vendors.
What doesn’t work well in the cloud? Pretty much anything is available in the cloud, but some fairly robust applications that you use pretty frequently – like Photoshop or CAD or any heavy and bulky application software – might be easier to use on your desktop because even you decide to use them, the bandwidth is really chocked for that period. But that’s not to say that you can’t get Photoshop from the cloud. It exists.
Set of advantages:
Scalability: Cloud hosting lets you avoid the delays and expense involved in migrating applications which have outgrown their servers capacity. The resources available in the cloud – processing power, storage capacity, or memory – can be expanded at any time.
Resource distribution: With cloud hosting, you don’t need to worry about hardware failures – the cloud will still serve your project even if one (or more than one) of your nodes goes down for maintenance.
Accessibility: As long as you have Internet access, the web interface allows you to manage your site from anywhere on the planet.
As one of the Cloud Learning Platform Company we are encountered with similar set of questions from our clients and partners. We thought of simplifying it for our teams, friends and clients.
But more than a buzz word Cloud Computing is the next set of realities and with the businesses getting more skewed towards profitability it is no more a one of the alternatives but an option to be more productive, profitable and scalable to increase revenue and brand presence.
When you own a car, you have to make your monthly payment no matter how many (or few) miles you drive. On top of that, you have to pay for gas, oil changes, wiper blades, car washes, parts and service, and everything else you need to keep the car running. The same goes for owning a server ”you are on the hook for absolutely everything, from hardware and upgrades to electricity.
Cloud computing = Taking a Taxi
On the other hand, when you take advantage of cloud computing, it's like taking a taxi – all you pay for is the mileage, which in this case is the amount of storage space used,vdata processed and transmitted.
From our point of view, if you strip away all of the jargon around cloud computing, it basically means that the software you use isn’t on your own personal or work computer. It’s somewhere else. It could be anywhere. You pretty much use it through a web browser, a mobile phone, a laptop, or a tablet. Simply put, your data is stored someplace else. This is how your email works if you use Gmail, YAHOO Mail, or your company mail. It’s also how your online banking works. Your banking information isn’t on your own computer. It’s stored in the “cloud,” so to speak, at your bank.
The most common question we are asked by our clients (Specially when we ask them to deploy their content on Servers for scalable learning model) "Is it safe?"
The misperception is that if you have your data stored locally, it’s safer than if you have it stored in the cloud. In fact, it’s usually easier for a motivated person to get into your home network, or to pose as a cleaning person and take your computer right off your desk. If your data is stored by reputable companies/servers, I think it’s more secure than on your own computer these days. We used to worry about credit card transactions over the internet, and now most of us don’t worry about buying a product from Amazon, eBay or even Indian sites such as IRCTC, naukri, bookmyshow or similar vendors.
What doesn’t work well in the cloud? Pretty much anything is available in the cloud, but some fairly robust applications that you use pretty frequently – like Photoshop or CAD or any heavy and bulky application software – might be easier to use on your desktop because even you decide to use them, the bandwidth is really chocked for that period. But that’s not to say that you can’t get Photoshop from the cloud. It exists.
Set of advantages:
Scalability: Cloud hosting lets you avoid the delays and expense involved in migrating applications which have outgrown their servers capacity. The resources available in the cloud – processing power, storage capacity, or memory – can be expanded at any time.
Resource distribution: With cloud hosting, you don’t need to worry about hardware failures – the cloud will still serve your project even if one (or more than one) of your nodes goes down for maintenance.
Accessibility: As long as you have Internet access, the web interface allows you to manage your site from anywhere on the planet.
As one of the Cloud Learning Platform Company we are encountered with similar set of questions from our clients and partners. We thought of simplifying it for our teams, friends and clients.
But more than a buzz word Cloud Computing is the next set of realities and with the businesses getting more skewed towards profitability it is no more a one of the alternatives but an option to be more productive, profitable and scalable to increase revenue and brand presence.
For Video based illustration visit:
http://wheebox.blogspot.com/2011/08/cloud-computing-explained-buy-car-vs.html
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