CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES

  What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networks, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet ("the cloud") to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically only pay for the cloud services you use, which helps reduce operational costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change. Cloud Computing Services Features and Benefits Although cloud services may vary in their details, the definition of cloud computing identifies the basic functions and benefits that are common to all clouds. From the perspective of service users, cloud computing services have the following main features: Hosted and maintained by the provider  A cloud hosting provider buys, hosts and maintains the necessary hardware and software in its own facility. Users of the service avoid the capital expenditure and maintenance, worries that they woul...