What is cloud?
Today, every individual, experiences technology as a first hand experiences. The technology has evolved in a faster pace and has become our better half these days. No days passes without the use of technology for the betterment of our self. How good it is or how bad it is a different question for a different day. Now coming back, if you have used or using technology for your day-to-day activities then you are a beneficiary of the cloud platform.
Cloud – in simple terms – its a platform which facilitates the availability and accessibility of data or content to the users in a more sophisticated way. e.g – Emails, Social Media profile, Dropbox etc.
The cloud for individuals are more of a finished products, it is provided to them mostly in shape of APP’s which aides to the usage flexibility.
However, for enterprises & businesses the journey to cloud is a way that is more complicated. The journey to cloud should be a thought through at every level of the organization and the business model has to be re-defined to adopt the cloud strategy.
Cloud Deployment Model
Gone are the days of the legacy infrastructure, most of the organization has transformed them to some form cloud model. The most commonly used cloud models that are used today within the enterprise and business.
- Enterprise Cloud
- Single client model
- Hosted within the enterprise / org
- Highly secured
- Access point – Internet / VPN
- Public Cloud
- Multiple tenant
- Shared Infra
- Internet based access
- Managed services
- Low Cost
- Hybrid Cloud
- Combination of public & private cloud based IT infrastructure
- Complex model
- Critical systems deployed in private cloud
- Integration through the use of cloud gateways
- Flexible & Scalable
- Community Cloud
- Shared by multiple org
- Very low cost
- Public hosted / owned & shared
Cloud Maturity Model
The cloud maturity model are broadly classified as
- On-Premise Deployment Model
- You build everything Infra, Network, Middle-ware, DB
- Infrastructure as a Service a.k.a IaaS
- Migrate your app to the hosted infrastructure
- Platform as a Service a.k.a PaaS
- Build your apps based on the available system & application servers
- Software as a Service a.k.a SaaS
- Use the product as-is
Step in to Cloud :
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