The Cloud is a metaphor for a pool of computing resources, such as applications, CPU, RAM, storage, virtual servers and network equipment, that users access over the Internet.
This metaphor is most commonly used in the term cloud computing, which refers to the practice of using these resources instead of an on-site equivalent.
Cloud computing allows users to buy IT as a service rather than a range of hardware products. For this reason, it’s often compared to the electricity grid because users don’t have to understand the devices or infrastructure involved, they just use the service and pay only for what they use.
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A public cloud is a cloud that's open to anyone. As a result, many users will share the resources of this cloud, which means they'll get good value for money owing to the economies of scale involved.
Private Cloud
A private cloud is generally restricted to a single customer or trusted community. These are popular with organizations that want to benefit from cloud computing, but need more security and flexibility than a public cloud can offer. Organisations can run private clouds in their own data centers or in data centers hosted by a third party.
Hybrid Cloud
A hybrid cloud, as the name infers, is a cloud that joins on-premises infrastructure to private or public clouds, or clouds to each other (for example, public and private clouds).
Cloud services usually fall into one of the following categories:
Infrastructure-as-service refers to computing infrastructure that users access over the Internet. In this model, users access resources from a virtual data center on demand.
It provides users with computing as a service and removes the need for them to purchase and manage expensive IT infrastructure. As with most cloud services, users can scale it up and down, and usually only pay for what they use.
Rise provides infrastructure-as-a-service to its partners, which enables them to offer cloud services to their customers.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Software-as-a-service refers to software or applications that users access over the Internet (typically from a public cloud or shared environment).
As a result, users don't need to install SaaS applications, unlike desktop applications. Instead, SaaS applications are hosted in the Cloud and users simply access them as if they were installed locally.
Rise partners often use its infrastructure to provide their customers with Software-as-a-Service applications.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Platform-as-a-service refers to a hosted environment in which developers can build and launch new applications.
These platforms require more technical work to build cloud-computing services, but can offer more flexibility depending on the scale of a project.
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