In the earlier blog post I wrote about how Wipro is going gung ho about cloud computing. Now I ownder what Cloud Computing is all about. Is it something related to the shepherds who flock sheep whole day and count number of clouds up in the sky to overcome boredom? Please excuse me for my ignorance; I know I am dead wrong, because till then I didn’t stumble on this piece of information from Wikipedia.
Cloud computing is a computing paradigm shift in which computing is moved away from personal computers or an individual application server to a "cloud" of computers. Users of the cloud only need to be concerned with the computing service being asked for, because the underlying details of how it is achieved are hidden. This method of distributed computing is done by pooling computer resources and managing them via software (rather than by a human
).
The services requested of a cloud are not limited to web applications, but may also include IT management tasks, such as requesting of systems, a software stack, or a specific web appliance.
Cloud computing simplifies IT management as well as increases efficiencies of system resources. IT administrators no longer need to install software and manually set up all the systems, but may instead use management software do this. Resources are used more efficiently because computers can be consolidated to achieve more tasks. This ensures that underutilized systems do not sit idle.
Hmm….nice idea... (I am enlightened now!!). Nice recurring idea to let the revenue flow in.
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