Cloud Computing

What do “Gmail”, “Dropbox” and other social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn have in common? They all employ the “Cloud” for storage purposes. Cloud computing – yet another hot topic in the IT world is outsourcing all applications relating to email, storage, networking to cloud providers. Hosting one’s own server and building one’s own infrastructure drains time and money. The primary advantage of using cloud computing is the cost savings for organizations. We will see some of the characteristics of cloud computing along with the different deployment models and security issues relating to cloud computing in this post. Characteristics of […]