Major Cloud Service Providers
Cloud computing is a new alternative, consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet. It provides dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet. Today, business uses cloud computing as the preferred infrastructure to curtail down the capital expenditure reducing the barriers to entry provided by third-party.
Three of the major cloud service providers are:
1. Amazon
Complete flexible computing environment in the cloud is offered by Amazon. It is a simple and easy to handle cloud computing service that allows development of application. Amazon is a web services provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
Key features are:
Elasticity: It enables increasing or decreasing capacity based on minutes, hours or days. Clients can use commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously.
Control: Each user interacts with each other, stop an instance while retaining the data on the boot partition and then subsequently restart the same instance using web service APIs.
Flexibility: Clients can choose from multiple instance types, operating systems, software packages & select configuration of memory, CPU, instance storage, and the boot partition size that will be optimal for their operating system and application.
2. Google
Google makes it easy to scale the traffic and data storage, as the need grows. Its key advantage is scalability of the applications. Google will host not only your code, but your data on their servers.
Google provides these features:
Centralized administration: This is a company-focused administration console that allows users to manage all the applications in the domain.
Reliability and support: 99.9% uptime service level agreement, with premium developer support available
Enterprise features: Coming later this year – hosted SQL databases, SSL on your company’s domain for secure communications, and access to advanced Google services.
3. Sales Force
Sales Force Cloud if the world’s #1 sales application. It provides business everything needed to focus on what’s important: more selling and less administration.
Close more deals — faster
Gain real-time visibility into sales
Collaborate instantly and know what matter
The Sales Cloud puts everything in one place. It’s as easy to use as your favorite consumer Web sites and the information you care about most gets pushed to you in real time. Suddenly, sales success is not only possible, it’s easy.
