The Cloud Computing Advantages of Efficient Server Utilization

Before Cloud Computing:

Here we will discuss the cloud computing advantages of efficient server utilization. Prior to the availability of virtualization and cloud computing .When a business required computer applications, such as email, to increase their efficiency, they would need to acquire a Serverwhich would be dedicated to only one specific application and each server cost between $3000 to $20000.

On that server, they would need to install operating system software. And then on the top of the operating system they would need to install software for this specific application.

Why Servers are not beneficial as Cloud Computing:

Servers are dependent on many active components. These components include a CPU, hard drive, power supply, RAM and operating system software. Servers also require IT staff to program them. For servers to operate properly all components are dependent on each other, if any component is not working, all server go down. Now with virtualization and cloud computing, each server can operate at near full capacity by facilitating multiple applications. This drastically reduces the number of costly and partially used servers and eliminates the need for Sever Sprawl. If the public cloud is utilized, businesses can eliminate the need for and all of the expense associated with on-premise servers.

How to Minimize Security and Privacy Issue:

With Cloud Computing, companies are now able to obtain flexible access to virtually any application without the need to invest in building and maintain a costly IT infrastructure.

People tend to believe that the cloud is scary, these are the things they are scared aboutprivacy and security. Yes, their concerns are valid but also look at what you have today and compare it, and do the same analysis on servers. You really have to talk with the cloud vendor and understand what their security is, and how well they are protecting it. Most of the vendors should have this information posted on their websites, or it should be in the contract. Also if the claim that they are certified, then they needs to have been audited by someone, so you can check out who did they audit.

Hybrid Cloud’s Security Issues and Benefits

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Hybrid Cloud’s Security Issues and Benefits:

Sometimes a situation arises where you are insecure about something but you still have to do it because the benefits are far higher than security issues. Before we go into details of security issues, you might incur we should first understand Hybrid Cloud technology.

It is an innovative idea that is the guarantee to save your data on a third-party server so you can back it up anytime you want. Think of a mini internet network that only contains the information related to you.

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Does Hybrid Cloud System Really Works?

Several years ago before it was even invented, the idea was still there, it tickled many, but security issues arise with this system stopped any further work to be carried out on it.

The idea was to create a giant storage space to help the organizations and individuals to store their data using 3^rd party storage spaces. You can understand why this idea was delayed but with the new services came into being as if ‘Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Joyent Compute’ people are starting to put their trust into these companies.

Private Cloud Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Computing/Hybrid Computing via cloud is the combination of public cloud providers (names as mentioned above) with a private cloud policy. Private Cloud means the cloud designed to use by one individual or organization at large. The public and private cloud both work on a same goal but through different means but what is common between them is as follows.

• Communication over an encrypted connection
• High-tech technology that allows for the portability of your data
• Reliable third party Hosts

Is It Possible To Minimize The Security Risks?

Cloud Security Risks

 Any common man will say after reading about hybrid clouds that it seems like a good idea and why he care somebody tapped in his files? A company is a person but a big person, sometimes a giant person, so they think thousands time before taking a serious step like that. The main concern is that, many organizations believe that if third party which is proving storage can also access their important data and we hear news every day hackers hacking this site or that site. In an environment like that it is a tough decision to make but the benefits are great.

You can store unlimited amount of data, so it stay secure even your whole business fall into pieces, also it helps you access the information by using server. It makes the job easy and provides problem check and balance.

Are you moving to cloud? What are the benefits you get from Cloud Computing?

What is “moving to cloud”?

What is moving to cloud

We often hear the term “moving to cloud”, which many of us do not even know what it means. Of course, they are not talking about taking their organization to the clouds.  To learn what they are saying we have to understand the term Cloud computing, private and public clouds.

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(By the way “moving to cloud” also refers to a company/business moving away from old timesCAPEX model to the OPEX model).

Cloud computing is a model for supporting global, useful, on-demand access to a shared information to help the specific department or organization at whole. Still don’t get it?

Is it important to use cloud computing? :

Let us describe in more easy and definitive way about Cloud computing. Does various companies e.g. Microsoft help your business server to have more storage space? Of course we are not talking about physical storage space, because only God can give you that not Microsoft.

Therefore, this system made for companies and new businesses. It relies on sharing of resources (like information) to realize logical and cost-cutting system similar to any great service (e.g. like the electricity grid). Cloud computing is definitely the broader notion of united groundwork and communal services.

Some more details:

Every person/company has three options to choose from, you can buy a whole house made of hard disks, store data there, and pray to God it always stay safe. Second option is to use ahost/ server. Third is cloud computing, it is the practice of using a network of distant servers introduced on the Internet for storing and managing information.

We will discuss about Hybrid Cloud Solutions, and what are private clouds and public clouds in our next article, hope you have understood something about cloud computing.

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Following are some benefits that you get by shifting your company into cloud computing:

• On-demand self-service; everything is always accessible, and easy to use.

• Broad network access; Access information anywhere in the world no matter where is your business
• Resource pooling; multiple consumers can be pooled to serve (work hire) using a multi-tenant model.
• Rapid elasticity; Resource usage can be observed, measured, and informed, providing clearness for both the provider and customer of the information.

Cloud Deployment Models & Their Benefits

Cloud is not a single term in I.T world; it is defined by its types. Before we discuss its types, we must know what cloud is. Many of us already using it without realizing it, if any of you have a Google account, you are already a member of public cloud. Public cloud is one of three types of Cloud storage i.e. Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud. Understanding cloud computing is essential for anyone who is interested in enhancing data security and its capacity for his or her work place.

Cloud Deployment Models and Types are:

• defined by its users
• not defined by its cost, location and technology
• Storing and computing data are the basic examples of Cloud Types.

Before we move to further introduction to Cloud Deployment Models we must understand about the term ‘NIST’.

NIST is National Institute of Standards And Technology, to learn detailed specifics about Cloud, and the laws regarding data security, NIST created a publication where they defined cloud computing.

>> To read the publication you can search on Google by typing ‘800-145’. <

Let’s discuss cloud computing and its types:

Public Clouds:

This is most of the people think of when they think about cloud. Public cloud is created when host server rent storage to public. These tenants only pay for the services they actually used, and they are the perfect choice for hosting apps like HR, emails, CRM etc. for business. Drop Box is also an example of a public cloud.

Private Clouds:

Well it differs from Public cloud because a private cloud has only one tenant, you can get all the goodness of the cloud and you can control and customize it according to your needs. That is the reason many companies are migrating to private cloud. Private Cloud help’s companies publish their own unique apps like research and development, supply chain management and more.

Hybrid Clouds:

They are hybrid because they are the combination of Public and Private Clouds. You can avail benefits of both clouds through hybrid cloud, also provides ability to add innovative apps on certain demands. Like you upload on private cloud with the tuning like when the demand arises, it instantly gets on public cloud.

Why Hybrid Cloud Continues to Grow

Why Hybrid Cloud Continues to Grow

Not very long ago, there was only one option for anyone who wanted to support and provideI.T infrastructure, i.e. do it yourself. To achieve that you needed various services (Data security,  Data Centre, Storage, Control System, Power, Cooling System, Bandwidth and servers)  from various suppliers, Even after the hard work and estimating the cost, it still exceed your budgets. This happen for few years before cloud computing technology introduced.

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What makes Cloud Computing Appealing?

Everything got simpler, easier, and cost effective. Cloud provided Shared Data Center to minimize the work load by 100%, enabled its users for Automatic Updates and increased security along with performance. And after providing all these services, you only have to pay what you use, this way cloud delivered everything which kept everyone happy. Cloud Computing is the most easier and affordable way to run your business. Instead of running your apps yourself, they can be running them on a Shared Data Center, where you plug-in just like a utility service.

Shared Data Center

Google Integrates Gmail, Cloud Storage Service Drive:

Let’s compare Gmail to Microsoft Exchange, with Gmail you don’t need server and storages, or a technical team to perform to do all the upgrades and keep it running. With MS Exchange, you do need that.  And definitely it’s not cheap.  Gmail cost less because you don’t have to pay for anything, product or people to run them.  So it is more, secure, more reliable and more affordable.  Especially if compared with majority of the other applications on the market.

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You know why? Because upgrades are performed for automatically, giving your apps security and performance enhancement as well as new features. And the methods of paying for cloud is somehow different from other methods, you pay what you use at the end of month.

Art of Cloud Computing

The Art of Cloud Computing:

Cloud apps don’t waste your valuable time, which allows you to focus on your more important tasks, like growing your company Cloud computing can be done via any smartphone or any other device from remote place, anywhere in the world at any time.

vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager

Rent-A-Center has over five thousand servers that mainly work as great means to support all of the related stores and Rent-A-Center runs its 80% of set-up on VMware which incorporated to help you with virtualization and providing cloud computing software. VMware is a machine, a system which is providing you services you need the most. VCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager is a part of this machine but its features (with latest update) now enhanced.

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What is vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud?

A lot of clouds in one sentence but yes this advancement by VMware is worth describing specially about its new update. This hybrid cloud manager makes it a stress-free job tomigrate/transfer all of the applications to your public cloud, and it has proven its worth by providing your network a true hybrid and secure environment.

Cloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager is everybody’s favorite for reason, first it is free to download and install by anyone who is a user of vSphere Web Client. To make more sense it is a mixture of several features into an user-friendly solution for managing workloads in vCloud Air from the vSphere Web Client.

What Hybrid Cloud Manager Does

What is vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud

This manager only supports vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud, but according to developers it will be available for all kinds of other services related to hybrid solutions. Most latest and brand new features addition is becoming the topic of subjects on many forms.

Following are some features described:

Hybrid Cloud features

• Easy Workload Migration:

VCloud Air Hybrid Cloud uses replication based immigration of workloads to the cloud with very low minimum point.

• Very Fast Application Migration:

Application migrations process is fast and it takes no time with the latest software-defined WAN acceleration.

• Latest Hybrid Layer 2 VPN:

It contains uncountable amount of L2 network sectors to the cloud over only one WAN connection, which also let the new hybrid applications and portable workloads with constant IP and other addresses.

• Quickly Simplifies Network Integration at great deal:

Managing and working on premise with vCloud Air network as a sole network, with steady IP and other addresses.

• Seamlessly Extends Your Data Center:

Last but not the least in fact the most important point is that this manager uses Cloud Manager to cover work center connectivity to vCloud Air with a great ease. It is simple and it saves time, you don’t have to manipulate numerous tools, interfaces, and APIs.