Cloud Computing

Organizations make use of the unlimited storage potential of the cloud infrastructure. They can expand and shrink their storage space as needed without having to worry about dedicated servers on site. Infrastructure-as-a-Service is renting the infrastructure to run your own application and OS. It gives reasonable control, with flexibility over your infrastructure for reduced complexity and management costs. While there is not direct control over the underlying hardware, network, or virtualisation you still have the ability to install, manage your own OS and the applications running on the infrastructure.

It allows people to access the functionality of a particular software without worrying about storage or other issues. Software-as-a-Service is where the entire application is provided to you in a hosted format, you don’t need to worry about running anything below the application, such as the infrastructure, OS, services, etc. This is the easiest to manage in terms of management, however the least flexible.

Platform-as-a-Service allows you to host your own custom application, where the provider handles everything for you except your application and your data, they provide the infrastructure, OS and services required to run your application. PaaS is great if you have an application developed for the specific PaaS platform, and means you don’t have to worry about hardware, network, or managing the OS, and underlying software to run your application. You can focus on the development of your application and easily scale as you require additional resources.

Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) is any type of horizontal or vertical business process that’s delivered based on the Cloud services model. These Cloud services – which include Software-a-as-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – are therefore dependent on related services.