Case Study Analysis: Characteristics Of Cloud Computing

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Innovations and modernization are very much necessary to ride the ineluctable and inevitable tide of change. Most of the enterprises and organizations are striving hard to become effective and efficient through adopting virtualization. Information technology is changing the way business work and operate, the process of creating products and services to their customers and in the way they compete with each other. One of the valuable and paramount innovation that is gripping the world with great passion is cloud computing. Cloud computing provide improved and better computing through minimization in infrastructure and administration cost and improved and better utilization.
The most favored technology by industries the “Cloud Computing”

CHARACTERISTICS OF CLOUD COMPUTING:
Cloud computing exhibits the following key characteristics:
a) Cost: reduces the cost of maintenance and administration.
b) On-demand self-service. A user can unilaterally plan and arrange computing capabilities, such as network storage and server time, as needed automatically without demanding any human interactions with each service providers.
c) Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and can be easily accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms
d) Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are assembled and setup to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant miniature, with various physical and virtual resources that are dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. The customer approaching the resources generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter).
e) Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases inevitably, to scale rapidly outward and inward proportionate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available are often appear to be unlimited and can be appropriated and used in any quantity at any