March 30, 2011
A Brief Introduction To Cloud Computing
With the anticipated launch of Google’s Chrome operating system and Apple and Microsoft not far behind cloud is going to be bigger than ever in 2011, businesses all over the world are realising the value of what migrating over to the cloud can do for their business so it’s probably about time your business thought about it too. You can’t jump head first into something without first understanding what exactly it is though. In very simple layman’s terms the cloud is the internet and the idea it that you virtualise all your computing needs. The easiest way to understand something is to apply it to real life and see how it fits into your business.
firstly consider how cloud computing would affect you. If you’re working on a desk top computer at the moment it probably has a tower sat next to it or if it’s an older model it could be a huge box by your feet. When you start your computer it and it splutters to life it’s checking that hard drive for all the programmes and data you use and store on there. If you work in an office that chances are you have a few larger servers that back everything up. Anything that you don’t save to your desktop is likely to be stored on these servers along with anything you share with the rest of your business like software and shared documents. Sever virtualization is one part of cloud computing and it means you take these servers you store at work and the information you store on your own computer and your move it to a virtual location. This virtual location will be an off site data center.
A lot of people chose cloud computing for their business because if the savings it can bring. When you host you own servers you always have to have a certain amount of space free just in case and when ever those servers start to get full you have to add more space just in case you suddenly need it. It doesn’t matter if you’re using it or not, you’ve got to pay for that space on physical servers. If you migrate over to the cloud you only pay for the server space you’re actually using.
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