This case was prepared by Tanay Shrivastava under the guidance of Shanka Sengupta
“CLOUD COMPUTING for us is a key step toward helping our customers achieve better business agility, economics, and user experiences.”
Cloud computing in a simple terms referred as variety of services available over internet that delivers functionality on service provider’s Infrastructure. Cloud computing helps in easy storage and sharing of data across the connected devices. The data can be of any form ranging from documents, files, images, videos and all other types of digital data.
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The lifeline of DENMARK is its’ Rail network, despite being a small nation it needed to have a system which would facilitate accurate information about the whereabouts of train’s current position by employing a new technology that could save some cost. The given case deals with how RAIL NET has achieved 76% cost saving on IT investment and how it was able to give accurate and reliable information to it’s customer by the use of CLOUD COMPTING services provided by MICROSOFT.
WEAPON BY MICROSOFT: The multibillion dollar US based techno giant has served its clients with the best possible and cost saving solutions over the year. The same was implemented in the case of RAIL NET. Microsoft employed its cloud based information system built on MICROSOFT platform called as “WINDOWS AZURE “.This turned out to be a boon for the railway system which strived hard to get the information passed across its customer in a easy and feasible manner.
Earlier the information about the location of the train was available only on the homepage of the RAIL NET DENMARK was now available on the cloud i.e. on the virtual servers which were employed by MICROSOFT for the speedy information retrieval for the customers at a much faster rate than compared to previous rate of website visiting. One of the very best advantages of cloud computing service offered by