Improvements in cloud computing and cloud services are continually increasing. With many companies providing their services, choosing one that assures businesses of its reliability and safety is essential.
To be able to provide optimum service in cloud computing, 3Tera opened not only one but seven datacenters around the world. Having multiple datacenters assures users of high accessibility and security. A high level of disaster recovery for user’s applications is also provided.
The datacenters are located in seven countries in four continents of Europe, Asia and North and South America. These countries are US, Singapore, Japan, UK, Argentina, Serbia and the Netherlands. Not for long, more resources will opened in Australia and South America.
Another advantage of having worldwide datacenters is that regulatory issues in different locations is no longer a problem. There is minimal or no need for users to go through many legal processes. Changing codes is no longer necessary to deploy your applications. Businesses can easily manage and monitor their operations through a browser.
Realizing the need of enterprises to run their systems in public clouds, Intel and Oracle joined ofrces to improve cloud computing. The two companies are focusing on three fields to enhance: the efficiency, the standards, and most importantly, the security of the cloud service and computing.
With the goal of increasing efficiency, these companies will try to improve virtualization technology further with new server platforms for enterprises. It has been noted that the recent collaboration between Intel and Oracle produced a 17% improved performance, a notable acheivement.
Of course, security is a very important issue when running your systems under a public cloud. Yet, with the collaboration, businesses can be assured that files are safe and data are secured since authorization is required when accessing these private documents. Data encryption technology are also being enhanced to prevent breach of privacy even while using a shared cloud environment.
Not only will the two companies join hands, but they will communicate with industry leaders to highlight the standards. Maintenance and management are issues that need not be forgotten for enterprises.
Flexibility is what most businesses and enterprises look for in cloud services. Having a flexible platform with increased efficiency, high sercurity and notable standards is the best combination for a reliable enterprise-ready cloud computing.
Utilizing cloud services is one way in improving your company’s business. The World Wide Web delivers a lot of services to both business and consumer that makes it very dependable to use. The popularity of using cloud services has increased over the years, mainly due to the fact that it is flexible, reliable, easily accessible, extensive and affordable.
Cloud Computing and Sevices can be pretty confusing for a first timer, so let us enumerate some of the options of Cloud Computing. Let us also include the most popular companies offering the respective services (although these companies are not limited to providing the specified service).
* Software as a Service (SaaS) is an option where instead of expecting the user to install the application software, the user is able to access it through the internet. It is a centralized form of service. A popular provider is Salesforce.com.
* Platform as a Service (PaaS) is much like SaaS, although the user has given more control of his application. It provides complete support for the building and execution of the application. Known Providers are 10gen and Google AppEngine.
* Tool as a Service (TaaS) offers online tools needed by users, while guiding them about its usage. An example is Amazon’s Simple DB, which helps users in the indexing of data to simplify its storage and access
* Hardware as a Service (HaaS) may work as licensing for managing services, while can also be a vendor for pay-per-use. Such is Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Service providers offer guidelines, procedures and even hands-on help especially for first timers. Those who would opt for these services are guaranteed to have a satisftying experience.
Do you want a web service that offers a compute capacity that can be resized? Finally, a cloud service that is developed to make cloud computing easier is in the market: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as EC2.
The program interface of this new service is relatively simple and gives you full control of the resources, applications and settings that you desire. You can reboot remotely using web-service APIs. You are given the ability to run whichever operating system that you want, whenever and wherever! Amazon EC2 also provides various management tools that makes it easier for you to manage all your applications.
The best part about Amazon EC2 is that only the real time consumption is credited to you. Increasing or decreasing of capacity is just within minutes, unlike before that it takes several hours or even days.
Here are some of the features that would ensure that you have durable applications:
• Amazon Elastic Block Store – gives constant storage that will protect your applications.
• Numerous Locations – Amazon EC2 gives you the capability to place your instances in various locations.
• Elastic IP Address
With the aforementioned features and highlights, you can be sure that Amazon EC2 can provide you with complete control of your applications. Not only that but have a flexible, secure and reliable web-service that is less expensive.