Cloud Service Models (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) + How Microsoft Office 365, Azure Fit In

July 10, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Amit Kumawat.

Cloud is a hot, but ambiguous buzzword in the IT industry. A Sofware Developer may describe the Cloud in a different way than a System Admin, while a Database Admin may have an altogether different definition. What constitutes the cloud is a rather complicated question. However, there is one common view that most IT people share …

Cloud is a kind of an Internet based Service offered on-demand to a User who doesn’t need to bother with implementation details or maintainence. Cloud refers to a range of scalable services that a user can access via an Internet connection, preferably one with a higher bandwidth and low latency. Many Providers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others provide various cloud-based services for which users pay on the basis of service subscription and consumption…

Many providers offer a wide spectrum of Cloud services like Messaging, Content Management, Social Computing and Collaboration, Identity management, Storage, CRM and many more…

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