Most companies, whether big or small,
have adapted the work-from-home concept to run their businesses during this
time and so it is very important for companies to support their employees to
work in an effective and efficient way.
Coronavirus has turned out to be
a great problem across the globe. It not only affects the health of people but
also, the health of country’s economy.
The pandemic has affected the
sales, IT, procurement, transportation as well as several other sectors in a
troubling way. It has injured many industries and the departments within it.
However, cloud is something that
every business is looking forward to. The cloud is considered a cost-effective
tool, that every business must use for the security and working efficiently.
Most companies, whether big or
small, have adapted the work-from-home concept to run their businesses during
this time and so it is very important for companies to support their employees
to work in an effective and efficient way. The cloud helps employees to work in
a more secured and professional way regardless of their location.
Cloud is mainly considered for
security purposes and also for its return on investment. Cloud computing in
India has a significant presence is rapidly growing into a full-fledged
environment. It facilitates consumers as well as business establishments to
utilize applications without installation and gives access to their personal
files across the Internet.
There are three major
cloud-deployment models:
Public Cloud
Public cloud is mainly used by
small or emerging Businesses. The public cloud is defined as computing services
offered by third-party providers over the public Internet, making them
available to anyone who wants to use or purchase them. They may be free or sold
on-demand, allowing customers to pay only per usage for the CPU cycles, storage,
or bandwidth they consume.
This type of cloud environment is
appealing to many companies because it reduces lead times in testing and
deploying new products. However, the drawback is that many companies feel
security could be lacking with a public cloud. Even though you don’t control
the security of a public cloud, all of your data remains separate from others
and security breaches of public clouds are rare.
Private Cloud
Private cloud is also known as an
internal or enterprise cloud resides on company’s intranet or hosted data
center where all of your data is protected behind a firewall. This can be a
great option for companies who already have expensive data centers because they
can use their current infrastructure. However, the main drawback people see
with a private cloud is that all management, maintenance and updating of data
centers is the responsibility of the company.
It’s mainly used by large firms.
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud is a cloud-computing
environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party,
public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms. Hybrid
cloud computing enables an enterprise to deploy an on-premises private cloud to
host sensitive or critical workloads, and use a third-party public cloud
provider to host less-critical resources, such as test and development
workloads.
Hybrid cloud is also particularly
valuable for dynamic or highly changeable workloads. For example, a
transactional order entry system that experiences significant demand spikes
around the holiday season is a good hybrid cloud candidate. The application
could run in private cloud, but use cloud bursting to access additional
computing resources from a public cloud when computing demands spike.
Source: Entrepreneur India 20 May, 2020
