The Cloud – Potential for Managed Services – Part II
From the perspective of the end user, the three most important factors that influence the users are:
- The appearance of boundless computational resources which are available on the demand of users, eliminates the need to plan in advance and order the needed resources.
- No large expenditures and commitments in the initial stages of the project. At the beginning of the project may be small, and then, as it develops, it can be scaled and, if necessary, to attract more resources via cloud server hosting.
- Payment for the actual use of services, allows customers to opt only what is really needed in the short or long term.
The companies that address large computational problems can get results much faster and more economical, if they involve extensive resources managed by cloud service providers only for short periods of time. The fact that cloud hosting services involves work on demand, profitable companies, helping you quickly respond to changing conditions and market opportunities. Technology cost is proved by the fact that with the help of large data centers can reduce their expenditure on electricity, network bandwidth, current operations, software and hardware systems. According to the calculations, using cloud web hosting services, these costs can be reduced by 5 times. Savings can be shared between the operator and customers, including those for environmental protection.
In also identifies the types of applications that are best suited for the cloud environments are:
- Mobile interactive applications that respond to the information received from users or sensors in real time, as well as applications that need to be available round the clock, and use large amounts of data that can be conveniently stored in large data centers.
- Batch processing is particularly well suited for cloud hosting service, because in this case, users can get a short time, the resources of hundreds of servers and quickly perform a large volume of work.
- Intensive applications for desktop systems, such as applications of symbolic mathematical logic that uses more processing power per unit of processed data, applications for graphics and three-dimensional animation. All these applications can not be installed on the desktop, and need to run in a private cloud hosting network that works on a large data center.
Analyzing the results, reducing costs by simplifying the scalability for today, have increased the popularity of SaaS among small companies. It is predicted that in the near future medium sized enterprises, will be shipping on the implementation of SaaS and other cloud services. These businesses will use SaaS and other cloud services to the segmentation of user access. Users with high demands will be granted access to cloud environment, and the rest will still use the resources and networking capabilities of local data centers.
Nowadays, cloud hosting providers have developed several package of services for individual as well as personal users:
- SaaS Package: offers CRM and ERP, e-mail, web-conferences, etc…
- ITaaS package: offers storage services, backup, security analysis, etc…
- IaaS and PaaS Package: offers disk space, basic computing resources for testing and development of projects.
Technologies which are based on cloud services, have security, protection of personal information, performance and availability of support at the greater level, providing the possibility of concluding Service Level Agreements (SLA). Clients are given on-demand computing resources, storage and networking systems. Cloud technology is in great demand nowadays, because of the possibility of reducing the overall costs of ownership. It has significant scalability, while customers get a number of competitive opportunities, reducing the complexity of network services for consumers, providing reliable access to their services.
