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Kathlene Claire R. Balico will be discussing the introduction and nature of cloud computing. Cloud computing developed as a way for IT service providers to more efficiently expand their infrastructure and meet rising customer demands. Cloud computing delivers computing services like servers, storage, databases, and software over the internet. It allows users to pay only for the resources they use to lower costs and improve efficiency.

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Cloud Computing

Kathlene Claire R. Balico will be discussing the introduction and nature of cloud computing. Cloud computing developed as a way for IT service providers to more efficiently expand their infrastructure and meet rising customer demands. Cloud computing delivers computing services like servers, storage, databases, and software over the internet. It allows users to pay only for the resources they use to lower costs and improve efficiency.

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Good day everyone!

Our group is going to discuss about the topic, Cloud Computing…


As for the Introduction and Nature, I, Kathlene Claire R. Balico would be discussing it.

With the rapid development of processing and storage technologies and the emergence of the
Internet, computing resources have become cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitously
available than ever before. As a consequence, IT service providers are faced with challenges
of expanding the structures and infrastructures with small expenditure in a short span of time in
order to provide rising demands from their customers. To address these business challenges,
cloud computing architecture was developed.
First let us define what is cloud computing…

What is Cloud Computing?


To simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers,
storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the
cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay
only for cloud services you use, helping you lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure
more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.

What is the history of cloud computing?


Cloud computing as a term has been around since the early 2000s, but the concept of
computing-as-a-service has been around for much, much longer -- as far back as the 1960s,
when computer bureaus would allow companies to rent time on a mainframe, rather than have
to buy one themselves. This was followed by cloud computing, which really took hold with the
emergence of software as a service and hyperscale cloud computing providers such as
Amazon Web Services.
How does cloud computing work?
Rather than owning their own computing infrastructure or data centers, companies can rent
access to anything from applications to storage from a cloud service provider.
In this technology, end users avail themselves of computing resources and services as a public
utility, rather than a privately run small scale computing facility. In the same way that we use
electricity as a public utility (rather than build our own generators).

As cloud computing has grown in popularity, several different models and


deployment strategies have emerged to help meet specific needs of different users.
Each type of cloud service, and deployment method, provides different levels of
control, flexibility, and management.
What are the three main Cloud Computing Models?

What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service?

Cloud computing can be broken down into three cloud computing models. Infrastructure-as-a-
Service (IaaS) refers to the fundamental building blocks of computing that can be rented:
physical or virtual servers, storage and networking. This is attractive to companies that want to
build applications from the very ground up and want to control nearly all the elements
themselves, but it does require firms to have the technical skills to be able to orchestrate
services at that level.

What is Platform-as-a-Service?

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is the next layer up -- as well as the underlying storage,


networking, and virtual servers this will also include the tools and software that developers
need to build applications on top of: that could include middleware, database management,
operating systems, and development tools.

What is Software-as-a-Service?

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the delivery of applications-as-a-service, probably the version


of cloud computing that most people are used to on a day-to-day basis. The underlying
hardware and operating system is irrelevant to the end user, who will access the service via a
web browser or app; it is often bought on a per-seat or per-user basis.

Understanding the differences between Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and


Software as a Service, as well as what deployment strategies one would use, can be helpful in
deciding what set of services is right for one’s needs.

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