Cloud computing for dummies – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and NaaS explained
July 2, 2013
Grazed from Techradar. Author: Editorial Staff.
No-one quite knows where the term ‘cloud computing’ came from, but it seems appropriate when you think that it’s essentially about removing data and various IT functions from your office to another plane.
Of course the data isn’t really floating in the clouds, but residing in the service provider’s data centre, which could be located anywhere between the edge of the M25 and the edge of Bangalore. The crucial points for the user is that the data is secure, stored in a way that complies with their own country’s regulations, and easily accessible…
There are a handful of models, the most basic of which infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). This involves replacing equipment used in-house for storage, hardware, servers and network components with corresponding elements hosted by the service provider at their data centre…
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