Cloud Computing
Confused? – you’re certainly not alone..
Our industry loves to make a black art of simple concepts and ‘Cloud’ is no exception. The technology behind cloud computing has been around for a long time. Cloud is merely a way of buying the technology you need on a rental – Opex – basis without the need for capital investment in the technology and with the primary benefit of being able to rapidly scale up or down your requirements, as and when you need it.
The primary elements of Cloud computing are
Software as a Service (SaaS),
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and
Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas).
Hybrid Cloud – a combination of your own internal infrastructure & storage and ours
Community Cloud – optimised for specific industry verticals
Ad-hoc additional services (computing power or storage)