What Is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing is not necessarily a new idea.
Quite simply it is an Internet based system where elements of computing resources are delivered to a company’s devices on demand like a public utility. However, it is only very recently that it has become a viable business application for an SME in terms of cost and reliability.

The Cloud is the Internet.
The Cloud in Cloud computing is derived from the visual depiction of the Internet in network maps. The Internet would often be drawn as a cloud as an abstraction of the infrastructure it represents.

Common business applications such as Software, storage space for information and data, and even entire network infrastructures can be now be delivered to a company via the Cloud. This can massively reduce any capital cost on required new hardware and eliminates the need for periodic replacements or upgrades to existing hardware. All you need to access your company’s network is a device (eg, a PC) that can connect to the internet.

The Cloud offers a massive shared resource for processing power and storage that is simply unavailable to SMEs in terms of cost and space in current Server -Client business models. Through Virtualisation you can even consolidate some of your companies applications and tasks onto your existing hardware

In many ways much of the communication and finances of our personal lives already operate more efficiently and quickly in the cloud. For example, Internet banking, shopping, bill payments and even personal email accounts. Cloud Computing for SMEs is just an extension of this and indicates that this is very much the way that implications of technology are headed in the very near future.

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