Blessings of
Cloud Computing in various Everyday Life
Usage of
cloud computing
Can you feel
the enormous weight of all that Aadhaar or census data that deals with over a
billion people? Can hundreds, thousands of computers handle all that
information? While it is true that hard disks can contain thousands of books,
where is it all going to end?
It is a
profound mistake to think that the earth's resources would never end. Maybe our
ancestors thought In the previous that way or could not imagine the extent we
would use up all the resources. The time will come one day when we would have
used up all the natural resources that now exist and seem infinite like the
sun. The sun itself would burn out and life on earth would cease! Yet that day
is too far away to start worrying now!
Like the way
we use the electricity grid, paying for what we consume, the cloud contains all
the elements that are metered and payment is made according to the extent of
usage. There is no need to replicate software and extensive hardware devices
with each user. Costs thus get shared like using pool vehicles instead of the
five of them driving to work in separate vehicles!
The cloud
facilities could be a private cloud completely owned by one organization for
its own use, a public service provides facilities over a network or a hybrid
cloud contains several kinds of services.
Have you
heard about IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and UCaaS? The "S", at the end stand for
services and the initial letters stand for Information, Software, Platform and
Unified Communications. A range of services are dispensed from the cloud where
the organization and management is left in the hands of the Cloud that merely
dispenses. The users would access the services through smartphones or laptops
just like the present and sign up the services they wish to use just like we
opt for the channels we want with the cable operator.
Benefits
of cloud computing
The experts
believe that such an arrangement would bring tremendous benefits as compared to
the present. The greatest advantage perhaps is security though we may be
worried about sensitive data. The advantages of a large organization are many
in terms of a shared strength like an army of people and systems.
The freedom
of accessing the cloud from any point on the earth through the browser is a
mighty advantage and it does not really matter what device you are working
from. Costs and maintenance become simpler because you have centralized systems
and software that avoids unnecessary duplication with each user.
Performance,
productivity, and reliability are ever so much enhanced under a large umbrella
of experts and the user has little to worry about except to connect and work or
play for the cloud computing of the future!
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