How Cloud Computing Has Changed the Face of IT

Grazed from Monster. Author: Editorial Staff.

We all know how IT works, the traditional way of building an IT network involves servers, hardware, licenses and software, all of which is an expensive process involving many IT infrastructural demands with sometimes lengthy deployments. This traditional full IT model may be widely used but new technologies are changing the IT industry forever.

Now there are easy, affordable ways to take IT online and ‘virtualise’ the IT processes thanks to Cloud computing. Cloud computing provides easy access via online applications which therefore means there is no involvement of expensive IT hardware. Cloud computing is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a way of ‘delivering computing as a service’ instead of a product…

Whereas traditional methods are essentially a utility of hardware, cloud computing is delivered as a service over a network. The cloud of course is a general term for the Internet and there are various levels of security and accessibility, cloud computing networks can be public, private or even a hybrid of the two…

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