Cloud Computing
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. With the Smart SOA approach, you can find value at every stage of the SOA continuum, from departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives.
Below are some of the availabilities of SOA.
Application Infrastructure Build, deploy and run applications in a secure and flexible SOA environment.
Application Integration At the core of a Smart SOA deployment enabling seamless universal data exchange.
SOA Governance Helps you make better IT decisions and drive service re-use value.
SOA Management and Security Enables visibility to monitor and control SOA based services and applications.
This new IT delivery model can significantly reduce enterprise IT costs & complexities while improving workload optimization and service delivery. Cloud computing is massively scalable, provides a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, internet-driven economics.
Information technology is changing rapidly, and now forms an invisible layer that increasingly touches every aspect of our lives. Power grids, traffic control, healthcare, water supplies, food and energy, along with most of the world’s financial transactions, now depend on information technology.
Cloud computing has been gaining increasing attention from businesses of all sizes as a way to obtain secure access to advanced technology that is not necessarily owned or hosted by the user. Midsize companies, those with 100-999 employees, can benefit from cloud-based capabilities. The variety of applications and approaches to cloud solutions and the different resources companies can draw on will make a difference in how these companies implement cloud computing into their business. According to IDC research, public cloud approaches are beginning to gain traction among midsize firms, while private cloud solutions are far less prevalent. Roughly twice as many midsize firms plan to implement public cloud solutions compared with private cloud solutions in the next 12 months. However, IDC expects SMB spending on cloud solutions to grow by 20% annually over the next five years.
Let’s know more about Cloud Computing more…..
In its most basic form, the cloud can be described as on-demand computing for anyone with a network connection. Essentially, users access applications and data located on their available network. Wherever a user can access the network, the user can also access his/her cloud. Consumer-level cloud computing exists with sites like Facebook and Flickr which act as digital holding areas located on the Internet. This model is also evident in web-based mail such as Gmail and Hotmail.
Clouds can be categorized into Private and Public. Private clouds exist within an organization and Public clouds exist to provide services to users outside of an organization. The common thread is the location of application processing by a physical data center may be anywhere on the clouds network.
Using the cloud, organizations and individuals can use computers in a more flexible, efficient, and scalable manner. The cloud is easier to manage than traditional infrastructures.
As defined by many in the industry, the commercial Cloud comprises three layers: Infrastructure layer (which supports Infrastructure as a Service), Platform layer (Platform as a Service), and Application layer (Software as a Service, or SaaS). Unlike the previous generation of the model, in which multiple, dedicated instances of the software were hosted by the provider on behalf of clients, cloud-based SaaS is a single instance, multi-tenant delivery model. This decreases the provider’s labor and infrastructure requirements, which leads to lower costs for clients.
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