Cloud computing itself has different forms, as per different needs and in different situations.
- First thought comes to mind when we ask about the cloud, a majority of people would say it is an actual cloud or anything related to weather.
- Cloud computing is not a new concept in IT field. In simple term, cloud computing is a model which widely available, convenient network access to share pool of computing resources like servers, storage, application with minimal efforts.
- Cloud computing involves using internet hosting rather than local severs, to make data and services easily accessible across locations and devices.
- It is a system where most businesses and people work from more than one computing device. Cloud computing can refer to either the applications or services delivered through the internet as well as to the software and hardware that facilitate these services.
- Commercial, public cloud services include Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), Microsoft’s Azure, and Google’s suite of apps including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar.
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- Private cloud services exist solely by an organization which either manages the service itself, or has it managed by a third party. The examples discussed above all refer to versions of public clouds, accessible to the public and managed by a host organization, which sells these services.
- Community clouds are shared by several organizations with a community that may share goals or concerns. Government or G-Cloud is a specialized example of this – one agency may provide a cloud service to a variety of other agencies under the same organizational umbrella.
- There are also hybrid clouds, which combine public and private offerings to allow information exchange and even application compatibility across many different and disparate cloud service offerings. Hybrid cloud and its ability to utilize third party cloud providers makes this type of cloud especially flexible, and perfect for scaling to different needs.