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Cloud computing involves connecting many computers through a network, typically the Internet, to provide distributed computing resources. It allows users to access computer services, storage, and other resources remotely through this network connection. Key characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Benefits include greater cost efficiency, improved agility, scalability, reliability, security, and continually improving performance compared to traditional on-premises computing resources.

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Cloud computing involves connecting many computers through a network, typically the Internet, to provide distributed computing resources. It allows users to access computer services, storage, and other resources remotely through this network connection. Key characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Benefits include greater cost efficiency, improved agility, scalability, reliability, security, and continually improving performance compared to traditional on-premises computing resources.

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Understanding Cloud Computing

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Defining Cloud Computing


Cloud computing is a term used to describe a variety of different computing concepts that involve a large number of computers that are
connected through a real-time communication network (typically the Internet). Cloud computing is the distributed computing over a network
and means the ability to run a program on many connected computers at the same time.

Cloud computing is the computation that was done by a group of remote servers that form a network. It leads to centralized storage of data
and online access to services and computer resources; simply cloud computing is the acquisition to computing resources through the
Internet
Cloud Characteristics 
• On-demand self-service.
• Broad network access.
• Resource pooling.
• Rapid elasticity.
• Measured Service.

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Understanding Cloud Computing
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Some of the capabilities offered by Cloud.


1. Flexibility

Users can scale services to fit their needs, customize


applications and access cloud services from anywhere
with an internet connection.

2. Efficiency

Enterprise users can get applications to market quickly,


without worrying about underlying infrastructure costs
or maintenance.

3. Strategic value

Cloud services give enterprises a competitive


advantage by providing the most innovative technology
available.

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Benefits of cloud computing


1. Greater cost efficiency. While traditional IT requires you to purchase computing capacity in anticipation of growth or surges in traffic —
capacity that sits unused until you grow or traffic surges — cloud computing enables you to pay for only the capacity you need, when you
need it. Cloud also eliminates the ongoing expense of purchasing, housing, maintaining and managing infrastructure on premises.

2. Improved agility; faster time to market. On the cloud you can provision and deploy (“spin up”) a server in minutes; purchasing and deploying
the same server on premises might take weeks or months.

3. Greater scalability and elasticity. Cloud computing lets you scale workloads automatically — up or down — in response to business growth or
surges in traffic. And working with a cloud provider that has data centers spread around the world enables you to scale up or down globally
on demand, without sacrificing performance.

4. Improved reliability and business continuity. Because most cloud providers have redundancy built into their global networks, data backup
and disaster recovery are typically much easier and less expensive to implement effectively in the cloud than on premises. Providers who
offer packaged disaster recovery solutions— referred to disaster recovery as a service, or DRaaS — make the process even easier, more
affordable and less disruptive.

5. Continually improving performance. The leading cloud service providers regularly update their infrastructure with the latest, highest-
performing computing, storage and networking hardware.

6. Better security, built in. Traditionally, security concerns have been the leading obstacle for organizations considering cloud adoption. But in
response to demand, the security offered by cloud service providers is steadily outstripping on-premises solutions. According to security
software provider McAfee, today 52% of companies experience better security in the cloud than on premises. Gartner has predicted that by
this year (2020), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud workloads will experience 60% fewer security incidents than those in traditional data
centers.
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