Consequence of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing brought up new realities 

• Cloud provider such as Google or Microsoft set up concentration of massive clusters of computing resources- opens up possibilities for large scale data analysis at scales unheard until the advent of cloud computing.
• This new challenge has resulted in the development of new programming models and development tools to enable large scale computations and development productivity 

Components of Cloud Computing

The elements of Cloud computing are

1. computing resources packaged as a commodity and made available directly from the Internet ( UTILITY)
2. the ability of the end-user to rapidly provision the resources they require
3. metering - a pricing model that charges the user only for the actual consumption of resources
4. advantage of exploiting of economies of scales by cloud computing provider

Enterprise Computing

Cloud computing is expected to revolutionize enterprise computing. Enterprise computing is the application of computers for data processing activities in an organization. The resulting systems are called Information systems(IS). 


Examples: Payroll, inventory management , accounting applications 


Enterprise Computing started with the advent of mainframe computers in the 60's. Over the years with the introduction of new computing devices, enterprise computing paradigm have transformed into new models- changing in scale and ubiquity.

1. Mainframe

2. PCs, client-server models

3. Internet - web-based enterprise computing and customer-facing e-commerce models

Cloud Computing has new potential for revolutionizing enterprise computing once again. This is happening in our Times