INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Cloud computing remains an important technology for businesses
between multiple organizations
This makes the public cloud provider a vendor which is providing virtual computer resources to the organization.These days, public clouds
are not routinely deployed as the only solution for the organization
Rather, they are frequently utilized as part of a heterogeneous environment, often combined with a private cloud environment to be part of a
Gartner, growing rapidly by over 21% compared to the previous year.Advantages of public cloudDriving the growth to the public cloud are
multiple advantages which include:ScalabilityUnlike a private cloud, with which the business must build out the infrastructure, a public
cloud environment means the vendor has the responsibility for providing the resources on-demand
The side benefit to the business is that this allows resources to be scaled as needed, and to be responsive to the occasional spikes in
reliabilityThe data center of a businesses is situated in a particular geographic location, which may be subject to catastrophic weather
events, power outages and other potential issues
Only a minority of businesses have the resources to have multiple data centers as their private cloud, in multiple disparate geographic
areas.However, with public cloud, vendors like Microsoft and Google are massive operations providing a vast network of servers across many
different areas, providing redundancy, and therefore a higher level of reliability, than most businesses can provide on their own
Even if a single data center went down, the others would still perform, and the organization would not experience downtime.Cost
effectivenessBuilding out a private cloud can be expensive
upgrade cycle as gear reaches end-of-life, and the manpower from the IT department.With a public cloud, this is replaced with a contract for
a monthly fee that provides all this without the steep startup cost
There are also economies of scale as the larger providers have so many accounts that they can acquire and run gear most efficiently, and at
cloud has its own set of downsides as well:Security concernsWhile public cloud security has improved, there remain concerns that a server
shared with multiple users is inherently less safe than a private cloud solution that is dedicated to a single organization (and can be made
Accenture.Lower performanceWhile a private cloud service connects via a faster corporate LAN, public cloud is at the mercy of the internet
This can result in higher latency for apps, causing poorer performance, especially considering many data centers can be located at quite a
distance geographically from their users.Data migrationA common use case for public cloud is offsite data storage, taking advantage of
redundancy to avoid data loss
However, this can create problems for the movement of data as it is based on internet speeds, and can be hampered with congestion issues
Also, the data can end up in different countries, and be subject to different regulations, including different data privacy laws.Cloud
giantsPublic cloud solutions are available from plenty of sources, including the tech juggernauts of Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle
Cloud and Google Cloud, as well as some less big-name cloud companies, such as Navisite, Alibaba, Egnyte, Red Hat and Rackspace
quarter.#AWS has a 34% share of the cloud infrastructure market, which makes AWS not only the largest of the public cloud services, but
This is doubtless something rival cloud outfits are worried about.The list of clients that use AWS is expansive across many sectors, such as
Comcast, Siemens, Lyft, Slack, and government customers such as the FDA, PBS and the CDC
There is no shortage of testimonials of successful companies that are running successfully on AWS, including car shopping site Edmunds.com,
with 20 million visitors monthly, the grammar checking website Grammarly.com that uses AWS for its natural language processing engine,
is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success
The online storage provider, Dropbox, was an early success story of AWS, and the service would have been difficult to build out without
access to a robust public cloud environment.However, over the last few years, Dropbox has found that the allure of lower startup costs did
not pan out in the long term, particularly when combined with being locked into a single vendor
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