Know your cloud types
Not cumulus, nimbus, and stratus, but rather the clouds that are changing the face of modern computing. In fact, the new shift towards cloud computing is as monumental as the shift from mainframe to client-server strategies in the early 1980s, which allowed for smaller business (and the first personal) computers.The cloud has already been praised for its easy adaptability (no hardware to install) and ability to scale with an expanding website. However, “the cloud” is not actually “the cloud,” if you know what we mean. Rather, there are several different shapes that the cloud can take.Public cloud: The public cloud is also called the external cloud, and is the most mainstream sense of the word. Resources are offered on a self-service basis through web applications or web services. A third-party provider is in charge of these services, and bills consumers on a utility computing basis.Community cloud: This is a scaled-down version of the public cloud, available to a group of organizations with the same needs and the desire to share their infrastructure. The cost is higher than in the public cloud, but users are generally assured of more privacy and information security.Hybrid cloud: This is the form expected to become most common in the future. Consisting of many different internal and/or external cloud providers, organizations can tailor their own experience and avoid some of the difficulties of the public cloud, most notably PCI compliance. There’s also such a thing as hybrid web hosting, in which the infrastructure is made up of a cloud-hosted web server and a managed dedicated server for the database server.Private cloud: The private cloud concept is not a new one, but it is only now that the technology for it is becoming available. However, they do not yet offer the economic or management advantages of a public cloud, since the organization must build and manage the cloud on its own private network.
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