Bridging The Gap Between User Experience & The Cloud
March 11, 2013
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Danielle Arad.
The next big thing in the evolution of internet is the industry of Cloud Computing. With technological advancements making a leap in every quarter of the year, new methodologies are being devised to meet out the requirements of millions of users worldwide. The field of Cloud Computing has greatly eased the cognitive dissonance caused by multiple user experiences, thereby acting as a bridge to create the same UX across all platforms, namely – tablets, PCs, smartphones, and even televisions.
Though the Cloud is a fairly recently coined term, the actual concept of Cloud Computing dates way back when mainframes were used to access information in colleges and corporations with the help of a terminal computer. The great saying of the famous scientist John McCarthy, “Computation may someday be organized as a public utility,” back in 1960, has become a reality now. Clearly, the ever-expanding field of the Internet has played a pivotal role in taking the Cloud to the next level. By doing so, apart from enhancing the UX, the collaboration between Cloud and the Internet greatly helps businesses cut short their IT expenses by outsourcing their maintenance and operations to that of the Cloud provider…
Cloud Computing – How it is being done?
Based on the requirements of clients and on various factors like cost, user experience, etc., Cloud Computing has four primary deployment methods:
1. Public Cloud: The widely used Cloud that is available for the general public, free of cost or through a pay-per-use model, gaining access only via the common medium – the Internet.
2. Private Cloud: These types of Clouds are possessed by business organizations that want its data to be secured and easily customizable…
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