Public, Private Or Hybrid Cloud: What’s The Best Choice?
April 22, 2013
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lynnette Nolan.
Most of the companies benefiting from public cloud services today are small businesses with few IT assets, according to a recent blog post on the Forbes Magazine website. The post cites a study of 260 Amazon Web Services customers. It revealed that 53 percent of companies using the service have 50 or fewer employees, while large organizations (10,000 or more employees) represent only four percent.
It’s great that so many small businesses are benefiting from cloud computing. Few small businesses, however, understand the differences between public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds. Let’s take a step back and clarify the differences between them…
Public cloud: A public cloud uses the Internet to connect customers and services, providing relatively easy, inexpensive access to storage and software. This option might work best for companies without an IT staff. It’s secure, but you’re not the one managing that security…
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