Key benefits of Cloud Computing

The word cloud computing has become the base of most of the IT services. It is a predefined planning to centralized many resources at a single place so that multitasking can be done through a computer network. We can take the example of internet when we send email it is also an example of Cloud Computing.

The cloud computing can be shown by various diagrams that all the resources are centralized at a single place for use. The principle behind like the utilities is connected in the case of internet to the same group of computing power, data, applications and other files. You can access personal files, pictures, music, videos and even share, download and store them on your personal computer from anywhere without delay. We can take another example of this as a Network Operations Center (NOC). It is a remote place where a team of skilled technical staff is available to provide the required support. All the necessary tools and other software based on latest technologies are lined up forming a cloud.

We can take the example of managed services too. It is also a good form of cloud computing. It contains an array of support services like monitoring of your servers and networks, security services for your mail server, managed security etc. The concept of cloud has many benefits to understand why it is so popular as –

• Now the users don’t need to pay for hardware, software and other resource. It can reduce their capital expenditure to hire a provider for these things.
• They can access to a wide variety of applications with upgraded technologies without any downtime.
• If you take a contract of such services you can have the option to close it according to your convenience without any danger of ROI and uncertainty.
• You receive flexibility to share the resources from anywhere easily.

There are some demerits of “Cloud Computing” also –

• It is difficult for the user to claim his physical data storage.
• Users can be dependent on the service provider too.
• Access of what information is shared by which user is difficult.
• Security of the customer’s data is based on the vendor or how can the vendor to manage the data security concers.