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Dirik Hameed
The world of capitalism changed around 1980, when a new development known as the personal computer hit the market. While only 48,000 shipped that year, one measure of its influence is that three decades later, 125 million shipped in one year. It was revolutionary back then, and there is a new concept that may be equally innovative; cloud hosting servers. There are also a number of new concepts that are similar to cloud hosting services but not quite the same, and that is sometimes confusing. One relatively new and popular idea is the capability to remotely access and use an application over the internet. These Software as a Service providers are using the same type of concept, but without the power or flexibility. The same is true for a cousin of SaaS known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which is also remotely accessed and used. These types of innovations allow a user to have access on a limited basis to applications or hardware they do not own. They may rent a portion of a server or all of one, but it is still either an application or infrastructure This trend in information technology is a fundamental change in the way business looks at and incorporates computing. With understandable skepticism about the true capability of third party providers to secure their sensitive information, many are tentatively braving the waters of what the professionals believe will be a tidal wave. The need for a better solution than having more and more servers, desktops and other devices, this may be the solution. And it could be a very lucrative business for the providers because of how much it will save the users. Under the current typical set up, a company that needs to provide service available to its employees has to first estimate how much traffic the new application will have to support. For a large company, this could require a number of servers and supporting infrastructure, and the default estimate would be the entire population of workers. acting on that estimate, however, could result in more servers than really needed, since not all workers will be accessing the application all the time. On the other hand, an event requiring emergency use that overwhelms available capacity would limit availability when most needed. This eventually drives information technology departments to over supply, at greater expense. What is needed is the capability to expand and contract with demand. This would allow an application to start out small and grow as big as it needed to be. A company could also try certain processes in addition to their normal workload without a big investment in hardware. It would also be perfect for seasonal ebbs and flows. There are a great many advantages to being able to use the power of information technology without having to purchase every piece of equipment and the supporting infrastructure. The opportunity cost regained could be the difference between a struggling business surviving or going under. This is the advantage to employing the full capability of cloud servers, which can support a little demand or a huge demand, and the price matches the use.
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