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As cloud computing matures commercially and technologically, companies are taking advantage of its many benefits. Familiarizing yourself with the essential cloud computing characteristics can help you maximize those benefits to grow and strengthen your business.
The National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) lists : on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service.
1. On-Demand Self-Service
With cloud computing, you can provision computing services, like server time and network storage, automatically. You won’t need to interact with the service provider. Cloud customers can access their cloud accounts through a web self-service portal to view their cloud services, monitor their usage, and provision and de-provision services.
2. Broad Network Access
Another essential cloud computing characteristic is broad network access. You can access cloud services over the network and on portable devices like mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. A public cloud uses the internet; a private cloud uses a local area network. Latency and bandwidth both play a major role in cloud computing and broad network access, as they affect the quality of service.
3. Resource Pooling
With resource pooling, multiple customers can share physical resources using a multi-tenant model. This model assigns and reassigns physical and virtual resources based on demand. Multi-tenancy allows customers to share the same applications or infrastructure while maintaining privacy and security. Though customers won't know the exact location of their resources, they may be able to specify the location at a higher level of abstraction, such as a country, state, or data center. Memory, processing, and bandwidth are among the resources that customers can pool.
4. Rapid Elasticity
Cloud services can be elastically provisioned and released, sometimes automatically, so customers can scale quickly based on demand. The capabilities available for provisioning are practically unlimited. Customers can engage with these capabilities at any time in any quantity. Customers can also scale cloud use, capacity, and cost without extra contracts or fees. With rapid elasticity, you won’t need to buy computer hardware. Instead, can use the cloud provider's cloud computing resources.
5. Measured Service
In cloud systems, a metering capability optimizes resource usage at a level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service. For example, you can use a measured service for storage, processing, bandwidth, and users. Payment is based on actual consumption by the customer via a pay-for-what-you-use model. Monitoring, controlling, and reporting resource use creates a transparent experience for both consumers and providers of the service.
While not among the NIST essential characteristics, cloud computing offers a variety of other characteristics that can benefit customers.
Resiliency and Availability
Resilience in cloud computing refers to the ability of a service to recover quickly from any disruption. Cloud resiliency is measured by how fast its servers, databases, and networks restart and recover after any damage. To prevent data loss, cloud services create a copy of the stored data. If one server loses data for any reason, the copy version from the other server restores.
Availability is a related key concept in cloud computing. The benefit of cloud services is that you can access them remotely, so there are no geographic restrictions when using cloud resources.
Flexibility
Companies need to scale as their business grows. The cloud provides customers with more freedom to scale as they please without restarting the server. They can also choose from several payment options to avoid overspending on resources they won't need.
Remote Work
Cloud computing helps users work remotely. Remote workers can safely and quickly access corporate data via their devices, including laptops and smartphones. Employees who work remotely can also communicate with each other and perform their jobs effectively using the cloud.
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