Thursday, 9 May 2013

A Look At Cloud Service Providers

By Mona Moody


One of the economic sectors with the greatest degree of changing technology is the communication industry. Cloud service providers have seen an increase in demand for their services after corporations started realizing the power of clouds in enhancing customer interaction. In this era of computer integration in the corporate sector, it is paramount that firms be prepared to change to remain competitive in the economy.

Since cloud computing is a relatively new concept, many firms are yet to adopt it as they have not witnessed firsthand its ability to transform businesses. Indiscriminate resource sharing is the most important feature in these communication systems. Another attribute is the absence of humans to handle issues of network and access management.

Remote access should be supported so that users can operate from heterogeneous thick or thin clients without experiencing technical hitches. The resources owned by the provider are geographically distributed but they appear as one pool to the customer. The customer makes use of resources such as processors, memory or files without knowing their physical location. Above all, the system must have a means of service restriction depending on the access rights of a user account.

Many terms have been coined to refer to abilities associated with a particular system. One model, known as the Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigm lets customers make use of programs stored on the servers by the provider. Platform as a Service(PaaS) model creates a multi developer environment that allows people to use programs developed by users like themselves.

Many deployment models have been declared based on the access restrictions of clouds. Private clouds will only be used by members of the organization registered as the owner. The holding facility could either be located at their premises or at another location, sometimes under the jurisdiction of a third party firm.

Groups of consumers affiliated to some given organizations use community clouds. Public clouds are meant for the general population and managed by business, academic or governmental organizations. These categories can also be combined in various proportions to form the hybrid clouds as long as some form of standardization is adopted to support application portability.

The idea of a mainframe serving thin clients was established in the late fifties and has played a significant role in the development of present day architectures. These forms of distribution are associated with better efficiency, performance and reliability in the event of accidental data loss. Maintenance operations also tend to be less hectic in contrast to a setting where applications to be checked are installed on each computer in a network. With distribution, firms can take advantage of favorable business environments in a distant location.

Cloud service providers are always grappling with insecurity issues affecting customer resources. A provider worth his salt will always be struggling to come up with encryption strategies that will dissuade hackers from launching attacks on the system. Attackers come in many guises, from the hackers to internal administrators with malicious intention. In spite of these concerns this sector is stipulated to attract more attention from the corporate world.




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