What is cloud computing 





Technically most of it isn't cables under the ocean but well Noam you get the idea the Internet is synonymous with the cloud at the consumer level it usually refers to photo video or document storage like I Cloud one drive or Drop box that can be accessed from anywhere but cloud computing actually refers to anything that involves delivering services over the Internet as opposed to hardware or software installations on individual devices it all divides into three services platform as a service infrastructure as a service and software as a service platform as a service is.

 

A model in which a third-party provider hosts app development platforms and tools on its own infrastructure available the customers over the Internet paas models are used for general software development infrastructure as a service providers host servers storage and other individualized resources over the Internet IAS offers a variety of storage and memory options for any workload need and most commonly encountered at the consumer level software as a service is software distribution from a third-party provider making applications available over the internet

 

like Microsoft Office 365productivity and email or Sales force in Net Suite for enterprise use a cloud can be public selling services to anyone on the internet or private supplying services to select individuals offerings include Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure or IBM cloud and Google cloud platform in the end all cloud services share the same goal to provide easy scalable access to resources and services specific benefits include self-service provisioning elasticity paper use workload resilience and migration flexibility you