In the past, people would run applications or programs from software downloaded on a physical computer or server in their building. Cloud computing allows people access to the same kinds of applications through the internet. Cloud computing is a online service provinding the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. In simple term we can say cloud computing is a way of provinding hosted service. By hosting software, platforms, and databases remotely, the cloud servers free up the memory and computing power of individual computers. Users can securely access cloud services using credentials received from the cloud computing provider. It helps in the delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet .Cloud computing specially helps the small star-up business and company by providing various types services in cheaper way.There are many benefits to moving your business to the cloud:
1)Minimal Investment:You don’t have to spend huge amount of money on purchasing and maintaining equipments. Investment in hardware, facilities, utilities, or building out a large data center to grow your business at the beginning stage will be easier and cheaper.
2)Scalability:Scalable in a sense after some point of time when the business grows there need to be some changes and increament in things such as internet badwidth,space,memory etc.All this things can be changed and configured whenever required.
3)Collaboration efficiency:Communication in cloud environment will be much more easier and cheaper. If you are working on a project across different locations, you could use cloud computing to give employees, contractors and third parties access to the same files.
4)Flexibility: The cloud offers businesses more flexibility overall versus hosting on a local server. And, if you need extra bandwidth, a cloud-based service can meet that demand instantly, rather than undergoing a complex (and expensive) update to your IT infrastructure.
5)Disaster Recovery-Cloud computing helps you to backup and store and at the same time allows employees to be more flexible in their work practices. Cloud service helps to fight against downtime and conduct business as usual, minimising any and loss of productivity.