Converging in the cloud

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Martin May.

As most IT industry analysts will confirm, new developments in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technologies, as well as advancements in public and private clouds, are among the top trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2013.

A public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model in which a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available over the Internet. The public cloud is available to private as well as corporate users…

On the other hand, a private cloud (also called a corporate cloud) is a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people – staff and visitors – behind a firewall. Advances in virtualisation and distributed computing have allowed corporate network and data centre managers to effectively become service providers, meeting the needs of their ‘customers’ within the corporation…

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