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What Is Cloud Computing

Cloud computing provides on-demand computing services like servers, software, storage, databases, and networking over the internet. As companies grow, their data needs also grow and they require more storage and computing power. Rather than maintaining their own expensive server hardware, cloud computing provides scalable storage and computing resources at a lower cost. It also allows companies to easily scale their infrastructure as needed and avoid hardware becoming obsolete. Cloud computing offers flexibility and scalability for both individuals and organizations to access computing services over the internet based on their needs.

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What Is Cloud Computing

Cloud computing provides on-demand computing services like servers, software, storage, databases, and networking over the internet. As companies grow, their data needs also grow and they require more storage and computing power. Rather than maintaining their own expensive server hardware, cloud computing provides scalable storage and computing resources at a lower cost. It also allows companies to easily scale their infrastructure as needed and avoid hardware becoming obsolete. Cloud computing offers flexibility and scalability for both individuals and organizations to access computing services over the internet based on their needs.

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Cloud computing

:- Can be defined as the delivery of various on-demand computing services like – servers,
software, storage, databases, networking, analytics, intelligence, and many more over the
internet. Nowadays almost every industry is adopting one or another form of cloud computing
and this is because of the numerous advantages cloud computing has. As we all know, every
company consists of very few employees in the initial years and hence they only need to
maintain a small database. But as the company grows with time, their data also grows, and
eventually, they will need centralized storage and large databases.

Short, any company would need expensive server hardware at a certain point of time to store and
maintain their company’s data. Scalability is also one of the main reasons why companies are moving to
the cloud. A cloud-based application is much easier to scale in comparison to others. Not only this, in
every few years much of the hardware becomes obsolete, and software companies produce new
versions with additional features, so the software needs to be upgraded as well. With all of this, keeping
up with innovation without hampering the budget, is next to impossible. Here comes the role of Cloud
Computing. Cloud computing has so many applications and in this post, we are going to discuss the top
10 applications of cloud computing in detail.

As discussed, Cloud Computing provides every IT service we need on the internet. These computing
services are provided on rent and they provide flexibility and scalability. Users can choose the services as
per their requirements. So now that we have the basic knowledge of Cloud Computing, let’s quickly jump
into various applications of cloud computing

 What is cloud computing


Cloud Computing provides the ability to leverage different services like – servers, software, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, and intelligence with flexibility on the internet. Examples of some
computing services are – Dropbox, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure etc. Cloud computing services are used by
individuals for their personal use and by organizations for their business. Usage of cloud computing
services highly varies from one organization to another organization. It totally depends on the
requirement of the organization which service they want to use. And that is why we have different cloud
service models to serve them as per their requirements. Let us discuss each cloud service model one by
one.

 Uses of cloud computing


Cloud services can be leveraged at a personal level as well as at an organizational level. At the
personal level (also known as the lower level), the cloud can be used to store personal data. So
instead of saving all our data on local memory e.g, computer hard disk and then worrying about
the capacity of the disk, we can store our data on a cloud. Now we do not have to worry about
the capacity of our local memory. We also do not have to worry about our data and its
accessibility. Cloud services offer some amount of capacity free of cost but in the future, if the
size of our data increases, we can just extend the storage capacity by paying some amount of
money. Another significant advantage of storing our data on the cloud is if someday our local
memory (hard disk) got corrupted or crashed our data won’t get affected because it is stored on
the cloud.

Now if we talk about the organizational level, we usually have a huge amount of data to store
and as the company grows, its data also grows. Hence any organization would need more
storage options or we can say it would need an expansion of storage services after a certain
point of time. Also with time, the number of employees will also increase, and this will lead to an
increase in the capacity of on-premise data centers. The installation and maintenance of such
data centers is costly. So using a cloud is a good escape from this situation. The company will
have a large space to store its data in the cloud. Now they do not need to worry about the
storage capacity and computing power of their own systems. They can simply use various cloud
services as per their requirements. Cloud computing also provides business insights with the
help of big data analytics. Scalability is also one of the main reasons why companies are moving
to the cloud. A cloud-based application is much easier to scale in comparison to others.

 Applications of cloud computing


1. Online Data Storage
2. Backup and recovery
3. Testing and development
4. Cloud computing and Madical fields
5. Big data analysis
6. Entertainment applications
7. Social network platforms
8. Anti-virus applications
9. Account application
10. Management applications

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