Cloud computing services

Cloud computing surrounds us everywhere. We face it in everyday life when we work with documents in the cloud, use our smartphones for checking e-mails, send messages, store photos, etc. Nowadays cloud computing doesn’t seem like some sophisticated term that is used only in IT companies. It is a part of the reality we live in.

Talking about the business we can say that cloud computing services become an urgent need for business prosperity and nowadays more and more companies move their processes to the cloud. We offer to discuss what’s cloud computing service, how does it work and how you can implement it in your company if you need it (and you surely will need it once you find out all the benefits). Let’s start with the benefits.

Cloud computing benefits for the business

We can endlessly praise the cloud computing but let just list the benefits one by one.

1. Cost reduction. Of course, this is the main benefit you will receive from a cloud computing implementation. How can cloud computing save you money? Imagine the next situation: you have a website that works on the servers. At first, you should buy a server. Better three servers. One for work, one for backup and one in reserve for a case you lose one of two previous. Servers need special temperature and humidity, so you should keep them in the special room. When the number of users will increase you should buy new servers. At the same time, your site has a lot of traffic in the morning and less traffic at night. So, in the morning you need the capacity of three servers and at night – only one server. As a result, you’ll overpay for idle servers that you cannot shut down. With cloud computing, you don’t need to rent a new server each time you’ll have an increase in users, don’t need to overpay and don’t need to maintain the special climate for equipment.
2. Scaling. It is a logical continuation of the previous point. Scaling means you might to use three servers in the morning and only one at night. If your website suddenly has a lot of new customers the capacity will allocate additional instances automatically and the site won’t fall down. When the number of customers will be lower, the capacity will decrease. Thus, you use only what you need and pay for only what you use.
3. Disaster recovery. In our example, you have three on-prem servers. Let’s imagine your office neighbors flooded you. All your servers break down, your site doesn’t work, you lost expensive equipment and keep losing money because your website doesn’t work without servers. How does cloud computing solve this problem? Well, you have all your systems and backup in the cloud. Datacenters are built in the regions without seismic activity and have secondary power sources, excellent anti-flood protection, as well as water cooling, dehumidification, and fire alarm systems. And even if a cloud data center fails, the replicas of your server will be safe in another data center, in another availability zone. Also, the cloud provider is responsible for all unexpected situations with equipment, so they will put the data centers back online quickly.

These are the three common benefits you’ll have. It is impressive, isn’t it? Now you might be interested in how it works.

Cloud computing as a service

All these benefits sound good but how do cloud management services actually work? There are three types of cloud services:

• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS);
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS);
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

We will define each of them in simple words. If we imagine these types like pyramid layers, the Software-as-a-Service is a top of the pyramid. In this model, you’ll have access to the necessary cloud software via a thin client (website or mobile application) and can work with it in the way you need it. Cloud providers, in this case, maintain all the internal processes.

Platform-as-a-Service is the medium pyramid layer that gives you access to the software environment and includes the instruments for the creating, building, running and testing applications.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service is the basic layer. This layer allows to use of cloud infrastructure from scratch and build all you need – the environment, application, etc.

Each layer can make different things and suits different requests. Thus, with cloud computing services you can have a custom solution for your business.

Wrap up: do you want to implement cloud computing right now?

There are a lot of cloud computing benefits for business. We described only three and hope you understand what profit can you have. If we convinced you that cloud computing is a necessity you might ask how to implement it.

 Well, the most efficient way to implement cloud computing for your business is to hire a Managed Service Provider (MSP). Reliable MSP will give you the best solution customized for you. As a result, you will get a modern solid system that will significantly increase your profits.