The Cloud Is Your Everything
You may have heard whispers about cloud server hosting at the office. Or perhaps you’ve wondered how streaming platforms like Netflix can cast such a massive amount of content right to your living room TV or tablet.
As it turns out, the world’s leading internet television network, Netflix, uses Amazon Web Services or AWS, an on-demand cloud computing service, for nearly all its computing and storage needs. This includes databases, analytics, recommendation engines, video transcoding and more.
You’re also probably one of millions of users who enjoy the fruits of cloud server hosting from your pocket via a smartphone device, but what exactly is cloud server hosting and how does the cloud work?
Almost two decades ago, companies like Google and Amazon began using the term “cloud computing” to define the shift in access and retrieval of software, services, and files from over the internet instead of directly from desktops.
The Cloud Is Everywhere
The mass adoption and growing presence of the cloud in mobile smartphones and businesses have facilitated the need for more robust cloud infrastructure. The combination of mobile computing with the cloud has transformed the landscape of how data moves through a highly-complex and high-speed functioning network that allows users to access data from anywhere. Cloud computing is reliable, scalable, and keeps your business agile.
Changes in business operations have made cloud server hosting even more valuable as employers see work-from-home options as a long-term strategy for empowering a growing remote workforce.
Cloud server hosting broadly describes a pool of website servers that are usually spread across various racks, server farms, cities and even countries, often existing as either a single rack of servers or a comprehensive pool of servers spread across datacenters and time zones. Cloud servers might also be referred to as virtual servers, virtual cloud servers, virtual dedicated servers or cloud-based servers, depending on their configuration.
The cloud provides access to all of the tools, platforms, or applications you may need by hosting cloud-agnostic technology that is compatible with any cloud infrastructure and can be seamlessly integrated across your IT ecosystem without operational issues.
Cloud Computing? SaaS? What’s the difference?
Cloud computing is an application that runs across a server cloud. This isn’t the low-level hosting of files and databases, but rather, a specific instance of an application running across the hosting platform. It’s the distribution, internet accessibility, and remote hosting that forms these key components of cloud computing.
Service as a Software, or SaaS, is a method of software delivery and licensing in which software companies—like Salesforce’s CRM, for example—are made accessible online via a subscription, rather than purchased for and installed on individual operations systems or computers. With SaaS, all the maintenance work of software updates, delivery, and modifications are performed by the operating organization.
Choosing the Right IT Solution for your Organization
Outsourcing elements of your company’s IT environment through cloud computing and supercharging your business with SaaS creates a robust IT environment that allows your business to thrive with around-the-clock support.
A Managed Service Provider (MSP) like Nettology delivers remote IT support so your business operates on all cylinders and oversees all aspects of your business’ cloud infrastructure. This includes everything from cybersecurity and ransomware protection to migrating your company data to the cloud. Nettology provides expert IT advice and can help you choose the best option for cloud migration.
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