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What is meant by the term ‘Cloud Computing’
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that’s often used to represent the Internet in flow charts and diagrams.
A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that distinguish it from established hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic, a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.
Describe in your own words what is meant by Cloud Computing.
Cloud Computing is the term for delivering services over the Internet and has virtualised resources as a service. Users only need a computer and Internet access, it is sold on demand and is managed by the provider. Users can have as much or as little of a service as they want when they want it. The cost of using this service is measured by how much data you receive from the service which will be quite cheap. Also finding what you require from these services is very fast and efficient
The impact that cloud computing might have in e-commerce.
The impact that cloud computing might have on e-commerce is that data might be found easier and less expensive in these “database banks”. Therefore the e-commerce market would suffer for example if a site is trying to sell software for a retail price over the internet and the same piece of software is available at a software data bank it more than likely will be found easier and definitely be cheaper.
Potential benefits and problems.
There are a number of benefits for cloud computing they are-
- Agility- this improves the users ability to find resources, which is less expensive than going another way of finding the information they require.
- Cost- as there are no administrators to control the huge databases the provider can afford to charge for how much information the user needs, therefore charging by the quantity.
There are also a number of problems for cloud computing they are –
- Privacy and Security- as anyone can upload information onto the databases how can they detect which is relevant and which is not.
- Legality- the question of who owns the data the providers? Or clients who have uploaded their own data? Or even a third party site? The property rights for such data will always cause legal problems.
- Pricing- if the service providers begin to charge more for quantity of data this could be a problem also would they be willing to give discounts based on the length of usage or frequency of usage? These would all be problems for pricing.
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