How to build your own cloud server storage :Part 1

Cloud Computing

Today am going to introduce you to cloud computing technology and steps involved in developing a cloud server.So what does cloud computing mean?.cloud computing refers to internet based computing where shared resources and data  on a hybrid cloud  are availed to computer devices on demand .

Benefits of building cloud servers to businesses.

i.Reduced fixed upfront costs

Cloud  computing helps firms in avoiding upfront  fixed costs thus utilizing more time in the production of goods and services.

ii.Faster and better performance of applications

Cloud computing  enables business applications to run faster with great speed and agility with reduced maintenance and manageability.This impacts positively on how business deliver their services to clients.

iii.Offers business flexibilities.

Cloud computing enables IT firms to rapidly adjust resources and meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demands.This will help firms 

iv.It's green and environment-friendly

Many business firms are working up and down so that they may create their own data centers which will utilize renewable energy which will in-turn  help in minimizing energy consumption  in their devices with  the help of cloud computing concept

v.Large economies of scale.

Since cloud computing offers ability to create  data centers , firms can manage their resources efficiently and more cheaply and this results in high capacity networks and low-cost data transmission across the shared devices.

The cloud computing services are usually provided in three models to any business which is planning to deploy cloud servers for its operations.These models are discussed here below as follows;

(a).Infrastructure as service model  or (i a a s).

This is the basic cloud computing service  model.In this model, the clouds is tasked in offering  computers resources, virtual machines, rams and other resources to users.

This cloud service model  has reference ability  to online services which can abstracts users from infrastructure  details like physical computing resources, demographics, data partition, scaling, security and backup capability.

(b)Platform as a service(paas)

This cloud computing model offers development environments to application developers.In this  cloud model  service,resources like tools kit, standards for server developments and  channels for  distributions and payments provided to users.

This cloud computing service model also offers computing platform which includes operating systems, programming languages, execution environments, databases and web servers.examples of Paas platforms  includes AWS Beanstalk systems   etc.

(c)Software as a service (saas)

In this cloud computing service model, users are  granted  access application software and database resources.This cloud model is usually referred to as a all demand software and is usually priced at a pay per use basis or user subscription fees.Some of the instances of  these Saas model applications includes the Google apps, Microsoft office etc.

In the next tutorial, we will get into more details of  IaaS cloud service model  and Open Stack. So stay tuned and share with your friends .