Power of cloud computing

Technologies has pulled the world into a modern era , where internet has become our primary source to connect around the globe. From last two decades internet has played a vital role to pull the mode of communication, data transfer and work in the most advance way as it possible.

You know, we have fully adopted the technologies for our daily life, and when our life changes then the mode of our requirement changes too. The emergence of new generation computers, smartphones, tablets has brought an evolution in computing and world wide web.  I think you are already using the cloud computing service if you are using web based mail services such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc, through which you can access the email services from any device having a internet connectivity and from anywhere in the world.

So, What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is delivery of computer resources over internet rather than storing those resources in our own personal computers. Cloud service allows us to use the software and hardware resources that are managed by third parties (cloud service provider) at remote location.  We can use the cloud computing service over internet from any location. We can retrieve our data and information from anywhere in the world being connected with cloud service.

Imagine you are running a company where each and every employee need a computer system and some software installed in their allocated system and who have to purchase licenses for those software. If you manage your own centralized database for your company then , you need system administrators , high storage space, server maintenance ,system cooler,  security, uninterrupted power supply and so on. If there is a new updates in the server’s  software & system then the entire system workstations will go down until they don’t get supportive update packages. 

You are already using some cloud computing services such Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, Facebook,  online file hosting service etc, do you need any updates? Do you need to run them by burning your own electricity? Do you have a technical team to keep on eyes on these? Do you need security enhancement every month? Its NO, all it gets automatically and you don’t have to worry about anything. That’s the pros features of cloud computing.

So, what if instead of running your own system and servers , let the third party company host the applications, storage spaces , hardware and other services for you, then  you don’t  have to worry about security, upgrades & updates, technical team etc., you have to pay only for those things you will use as a monthly subscriptions, no extra charges, no maintenance and upgrade expenditures , you will receive upgrades automatically . The only thing you and your employees will need is a cloud computing interactive software , just log in and get started.
The cloud computing have almost every services from commercial apps, business apps, online  business and marketing systems , live collaboration system and much more. You can even demand a service from you cloud service providers.

The Power of cloud

I am in love with cloud computing because of its extensive features, the live collaborating system is amazing , especially when I am doing online study, its helps me to interact with my fellow mates and mentors   with hands on coding , sharing  and editing the same data at a once .
I feel   proud  that, I have achieved the certification of  Certified Android Developer and Certified HTML5 Developer through online mode and practicals on cloud platform. Its fun when more than one people work on the same file, its makes me feel more than a class room.

The cloud storage, where I keep my personal data as backup,  I had to face hard disk crashes, lost my smartphone , but cloud storage helped me to come out of those depression , where I feel my data are safe, I can access my data from anywhere whenever I need, I don’t need to carry a giant laptop or hard disk where it is unsafe , only an internet connection and a small device can retrieve my all the data I need.
There are some business and word processing apps are freely available at some cloud service , I use them which cut the cost of purchasing those software for my computer .

NOTE (the privacy policy):
The biggest concern about cloud computing is the privacy  policy because in this system we handle over our personal/commercial data to another companies. It is necessary to read the ‘privacy policy’ of the company whose’ cloud service you are going to use. There are few more things that you should be concern  such as, does the company who claims to provide cloud storage space actually own it? Does the company has enough data security system to protect the clients’ data? Does the company has enough physical security for the data warehouse? And much more.








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