Cloud Services

It is the third article of the series "Cloud computing - not only for big boys".

In cloud computing world everything is service . So we say cloud employs a service - oriented deployment model.
There are 3 main type of services provided by the cloud and now they became the buzz words of cloud computing

SaaS (Software as a Service)

1. It is the most popular and well known service provided by the cloud

2. Here software is provided as a service over a network like Internet

3. No more software installation, configuration . All is done at cloud and you just need a browser to access it.

4. No more software licences . Payment is done in subscriptions

Some of well know SaaS are Google Docs , Zoho Office Suite

Check out more SaaS services here



PaaS (Platform as a service)


1. It is least known but emerging cloud service

2. It provides a platform for building different kind of software

3. It includes an operating system , middle-ware etc.

4. You can use a nice Operating system over Internet !. Check out a cloud OS here

Well know PaaS are Google App Engine , Amazon EC2


IaaS(Infrastructure as a service)

1. More useful for start-up companies who don't want to invest in high-end servers

2. It provides the storage facility for the users

3. One of the simple example of IaaS is storing our mails in GMail servers.

Well Know IaaS are Joyent, Esnips etc.

Many think SaaS is cloud computing . But cloud is more than that. Its a combination of different technologies.
Try cloud services and tell us what you think about them .

Cloud computing as I see (Interesting views of different people about cloud computing)

It is the second article of cloud computing series “Cloud computing – Not only for big boys” .

This article brings you some of the interesting quotes about cloud computing by different people. Article will show how there are many different views about the cloud computing.

“I think whether you’re an enterprise or an individual, it rarely makes sense for you to have your own buildings, fiber cables and infrastructure. It takes a lot of time and effort to

maintain. Ultimately, your resources are available to you wherever you are, and you want those things there. There’s an economy of scale that makes that easier and more powerful because there’s a lot of interoperability that’s not otherwise possible.

There’s less time-burn in managing your digital life”. - Sergey Brin , Google Co-founder

“We believe that the cloud is a game-changing paradigm shift” - Lanham Napier , Rackspace CEO

“It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control” - Richard Stallman,FSF founder

"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?".

"We'll make cloud computing announcements. I'm not going to fight this thing. But I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud."

- Larry Ellison , Oracle CEO

“ Cloud computing is the future of Open Source” - Jonathan Schwartz, CEO , Sun Microsystems

“In the extreme case, we can take some body's data center and run it for them on the cloud. All the issues about administrative, capacity, who owns the data, what happens when things go wrong, when people are getting error messages, that's cloud computing and there is a lot of deep invention and work”

- Bill Gates ,Co-founder of Microsoft

If you came across any other interesting quotes , feel free to share with us.

Introduction to Cloud computing

It is the first article of cloud computing series “Cloud computing – Not only for big boys"

Cloud computing is every where . You can read or see hundreds of articles written about it . But most of them are more focused on technical and buisness details. This series takes a diffrent approach . We try to present the cloud computing in a simple , realastic and in end user point of view.

Rather than explaining what the cloud computing all about, I will try to answer the some of intresting questions I face when I talk about cloud computing.

1. Can you explain simply what is cloud computing all about (Other than what i read in Wikipedia)?

In simple terms cloud computing is “some one do the all job for you ...Just pay him as you use his service “.

Everything is service in cloud computing . You just pay for what you use.

2. What is cloud doing in computers?

Cloud is a methphor for the Internet. Since all the services are delivered over internet

we call this type of computing as cloud computing.

3. Is cloud computing is ground breaking technical revolution of this century?

No. Cloud computing is a not a new techonology revolution. It just using existing technologies in diffrent ways .Thats it.

4. Why there is so much buzz around the cloud computing these days?

There are two reasons for that

1. Cheap Internet access, increasing use of notebooks and smart phones, increased usage of Internet
2. Backing by big companies like Google , Amazon . When big companies talk it makes a lot of noise.

5. Is cloud computing related to satellites?

No. It has nothing to do with satellites.

6. Am I using cloud computing?

Yes. If you are using email,chating or other services over internet you are already using cloud computing

7.If cloud computing is all about Internet , then what is new in it?

The main diffrence in cloud computing is the business model. In earlier we purchased the software and bought its licence,update for patches, upgraded the hardware when the application wanted more etc ...But in cloud computing no more installations, maintance or updating. All are done by the cloud providers . Even you don't buy a licence . You pay for in subscription basis .

8 .Can you give an example of new business model?

If you want to use Microsoft Office first you have to buy the licence and install it on your system and keep updating...License may expire for 1 or two years.

But if you want use Google Docs (a cloud computing word processing suite ) you just subscribe for the serive and pay $50 for one year for one user

So tell us what you think about cloud computing......