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Cloud
Computing
- A computer service on another
organisations computers. A.K.A
hosts
- The services are
provided by
companies known
as hosting
companies
- A few well known
companies are
google and amazon
- Cloud users can
access software,
data and storage
on the host
computers, which
will be at a remote
location
- Users can access this from a web
browser or phone app but never
directly access the server.
- Cloud Computing and
cloud storage
- Availability: Data and fi les are be
available anywhere in the world
where there is an internet
connection. (Benefit)
- Cost and convenience: You only pay
for the storage you have used
(sometimes you dont have to pay).
You dont have to provide and
maintain hardware (Benefit)
- Reliability of Network: you need to be
able to get through to the host to
access and process data (Concern)
- Security of data: The fi les are
being stored by the host, so you have no
control over them. You need to be
aware of their security terms and
policies (concern)
- Multiple people: With cloud computing multiple
people can access your files and edit them
meaning tthat any work that someone has done can
be deleted by anyone at any moment and replace
with something silly, etc. (concern)
- Availability: Data and fi les are be
available anywhere in the world
where there is an internet
connection. (Benefit)
- IAAS - Infrastructure
as a service.
- Storing songs with amazon
- Storing songs with amazon
- SAAS -
Software as
a service
- Microsoft Office 365
- Google drive
- Microsoft Office 365
- Cloud Storage
- Related to cloud computing
- Where only the storage, access, and retrieval facilities are provided by the host
provider, via internet.
- Related to cloud computing
- Hardware & Software
- Hardware is things like the
actual computer. The things
you can touch.
- Software is
the
programs
on the
hardware.
Things you
can't touch.
- Hardware is things like the
actual computer. The things
you can touch.
- PAAS - Platform
As A Service
- Writing computer games
- Writing computer games
- Service providers
- Some clouds that provide
these services are:
- Amazon
- Google Cloud
- Netflix
- Now TV
- Some clouds that provide
these services are:
- The term ‘cloud’ is often used as a
metaphor for the internet. The exact
origin of where the term cloud
computing comes from is unclear but
many believe it relates to drawings
which used clouds to denote networks
in diagrams of computing and
communications systems
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