Demystifying the Cloud
Everyone is talking about Cloud Computing but there seems to be a mystery surrounding the entire concept. The reality of life is you probably are already using a significant amount of cloud-based services each and every day. If you utilize Gmail, Google Docs, online banking or business sites like Salesforce.com you are already in the cloud.
Data Right at our Fingertips
Today, we want assurance that every piece of data needed to run our life is right at our fingertips. Think of that as your Personal Cloud. Your spreadsheets and presentations. Your address book. Your online email and collaboration tools. Your online bank services. Online shopping sites. Information from school, family, friends. And all of the social networks we use in our spare time, such as Facebook.
While as consumers we are not explicitly purchasing cloud computing, the cloud services are hidden underneath the business and consumer-based services that we are accessing on the Internet to do work, purchase goods and services, collaborate, be entertained and to communicate with friends, family and co-workers. Most of us are deeply entrenched in the cloud.
A cloud service is any business or consumer services that is delivered and consumed over the internet in real time. Cloud computing is the IT environment that enables the development, delivery and consumption of cloud services.
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As IT professionals, this new computing trend sounds vague but is really quite defined into segments we are already very familiar with:
- SAAS (Software As A Service)
- Utility Computing
- Web Services in the Cloud
- Platform as a Service
- MSP (Managed Service Providers)
- Service Commerce Platforms
- Internet Integrations
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Advantages of joining Polylogical in the Cloud:
- Low Maintenance
- Fast Start up and Elasticity
- Cost Savings
- Increased Productivity
- Self Service Requesting with near real-time deployment
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