all types of cloud

all types of cloud

1. CLOUD COMPUTING

   • Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet. Cloud computing enables companies to consume a compute resource, such as a virtual machine , rather than having to build and maintain computing infrastructures in house.
   • CHARACTERISTICS
     • Elasticity: Companies can scale up as computing needs increase and scale down again as demands decrease. This eliminates the need for massive investments in local infrastructure, which may or may not remain active.

2. CLOUD SERVICES

   • Cloud computing is an information technology paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.
   • CHARACTERISTICS
     • Agility for organizationsost ,reductions are claimed by cloud providers ,enable users to access systems using a web browser regardless of their location or what device they use) As infrastructure is off-site and accessed via the Internet, users can connect to it from anywhere.

3. CLOUD APPLICATIONS

   • A cloud application is an application that provides the functionality of a native application, but which runs in the cloud and is interacted with via web browsers and APIs.
   • BENEFITS
     • A cloud application is an application that provides the functionality of a native application, but which runs in the cloud and is interacted with via web browsers and APIs.

4. WEB APPLICATIONS

   • In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server computer program in which the client ,runs in a web browser. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis, instant messaging services and many other functions.

5. Cloud Applications vs. Web Applications Web applications have been around for almost as long as the web. JavaScript was included in early web browsers so that developers could add features that went beyond simple static pages. If you’ve been an internet user as long as I have, you’ll remember Java-applet and Flash applications and games. So how do cloud applications differ from web applications? Firstly, and somewhat counter-intuitively, for the most part, modern cloud applications use APIs and technologies that are native to the web. When you open a cloud app, you aren’t asked to download a plugin that runs in the browser — the application uses technology built into the browser.