WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
What does it mean to Enterprises? | Ranjith Ramakrishnan
CUMULUX: Cloud Computing Discovery Series
What is Cloud Computing?
What does it mean to Enterprises?
Table of Contents
What is Cloud Computing?.............................................................................................. 1 What technologies constitute cloud computing? ............................................................ 2 Who are the key Cloud Platform Providers? ................................................................... 3 Does this mean the end of IT departments in Enterprises? ........................................... 3 What is a Cloud Maturity Model? ................................................................................... 4 Is Cloud Computing Enterprise Ready? .......................................................................... 4 About CUMULUX ............................................................................................................ 5
What is Cloud Computing? cloud computing \noun; style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies to multiple customers
Cloud Computing is more than a technology. It is more than a platform. It is more than just a hosting provider. It is more than just an application hosted as a service. It is more than providing storage services on the Internet. It is a combination of all the above. In today’s economic environment as Enterprises try to balance out and optimize their IT budgets, Cloud computing can be an effective strategy to reduce the IT operations and management costs and free up critical resources and budget
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for discretionary innovative projects. Typically, Enterprises have a 80/20 split between regular ongoing IT operations cost which includes hardware, software licensing costs, development, data center maintenance etc