Cloud Computing, for many is such an ambiguous term and widely misrepresented by others. Current television advertisements have gone so far as to represent technologies as Remote Desktop Protocol, as Cloud Computing.
As noted by Gartner, “Cloud Computing is a style of computing where elastic and scalable IT enable capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologiesâ€. This would be representative of Public Cloud Computing. This principle in many ways can also be applied to Private Cloud Computing as well.
In a nutshell, Cloud Computing provides the ability to offer service workloads rapidly without being coupled to a specific system or piece of hardware. For years, the sentiments of end users has been, “I really don’t care where my application and data live nor does it matter to me what operating system they’re hosted on. I just want my access anytime, anywhereâ€. So to that end, Cloud Computing is an end users dream.
For IT staff, it means the ability to quickly provision resources needed to host these workloads. It also provides the means to easily scale resources to meet the requirements of these workloads.
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