Cloud services
We are in an era where business and IT are married together. For enterprises, thinking of a business model without an IT strategy is becoming out of the equation. Keeping the interest on the core business, often the challenge that lies ahead of the executive team is optimizing the IT budget. Cloud computing has come to the rescue of the executive team in bringing savings to the IT spending incurred for running a business.
Cloud computing is an IT model for enabling anytime, anywhere, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. In simple terms, cloud computing refers to the delivery of hosted services over the internet that can be quickly provisioned and decommissioned with minimal management effort and less intervention from the service provider.
Cloud characteristics
Five key characteristics deemed essential for cloud computing are as follows:
- On-demand Self-service: Ability to automatically provision cloud-based IT resources as...
