Application of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand consumption of IT services and resources over a network. The main cloud computing benefit is that it relieves users of directly managing and maintaining the underlying resources, ranging from infrastructure fundamentals like compute and data storage, all the way up to complete applications. Cloud computing services are available through hyper scale public datacentres, on-premises in privately owned datacentres, or in hosted or managed settings. Cloud computing works by allowing businesses to use their devices to access their data within cloud applications virtually from physical servers, databases and computers that are not on-premises.
Users access the cloud simply through the internet, also known as the front end. This includes using the client device, browser, network, and cloud software applications. The backend consists of databases, servers, and computers from the cloud host and functions as a repository, storing all the data. A central server manages all the communication between the front and back end and relies on certain protocols to facilitate this exchange of data.
Cloud computing relies heavily on virtualization and automation technologies. Virtualization enables the easy abstraction and provisioning of services and underlying cloud systems into logical entities that users can request and utilize. Automation and accompanying orchestration capabilities provide users with a high degree of self-service to provision resources, connect services and deploy workloads without direct intervention from the cloud provider's IT staff.