What is Cloud Computing

The term cloud refers to a network or the internet. It is a technology that

uses remote servers on the internet to store, manage, and access data
online rather than local drives. The data can be anything such as files,
images, documents, audio, video, and more.

There are the following operations that we can do using cloud computing:

o Developing new applications and services

o Storage, back up, and recovery of data
o Hosting blogs and websites
o Delivery of software on demand
o Analysis of data
o Streaming videos and audios

Why Cloud Computing?

Small as well as large IT companies, follow the traditional methods to
provide the IT infrastructure. That means for any IT company, we need
a Server Room that is the basic need of IT companies.

In that server room, there should be a database server, mail server,

networking, firewalls, routers, modem, switches, QPS (Query Per Second
means how much queries or load will be handled by the server),
configurable system, high net speed, and the maintenance engineers.

To establish such IT infrastructure, we need to spend lots of money. To

overcome all these problems and to reduce the IT infrastructure cost,
Cloud Computing comes into existence.

Back-up and restore data

Once the data is stored in the cloud, it is easier to get back-up and
restore that data using the cloud.
2) Improved collaboration

Cloud applications improve collaboration by allowing groups of people to

quickly and easily share information in the cloud via shared storage.

3) Excellent accessibility

Cloud allows us to quickly and easily access store information anywhere,

anytime in the whole world, using an internet connection. An internet
cloud infrastructure increases organization productivity and efficiency by
ensuring that our data is always accessible.

4) Low maintenance cost

Cloud computing reduces both hardware and software maintenance costs

for organizations.

5) Mobility

Cloud computing allows us to easily access all cloud data via mobile.

6) IServices in the pay-per-use model

Cloud computing offers Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to the

users for access services on the cloud and pays the charges as per the
usage of service.

7) Unlimited storage capacity

Cloud offers us a huge amount of storing capacity for storing our

important data such as documents, images, audio, video, etc. in one
place.

8) Data security

Data security is one of the biggest advantages of cloud computing. Cloud

offers many advanced features related to security and ensures that data
is securely stored and handled.

Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

A list of the disadvantage of cloud computing is given below -
1) Internet Connectivity

As you know, in cloud computing, every data (image, audio, video, etc.) is
stored on the cloud, and we access these data through the cloud by using
the internet connection. If you do not have good internet connectivity,
you cannot access these data. However, we have no any other way to
access data from the cloud.

2) Vendor lock-in

Vendor lock-in is the biggest disadvantage of cloud computing.

Organizations may face problems when transferring their services from
one vendor to another. As different vendors provide different platforms,
that can cause difficulty moving from one cloud to another.

3) Limited Control

As we know, cloud infrastructure is completely owned, managed, and

monitored by the service provider, so the cloud users have less control
over the function and execution of services within a cloud infrastructure.

4) Security

Although cloud service providers implement the best security standards

to store important information. But, before adopting cloud technology,
you should be aware that you will be sending all your organization's
sensitive information to a third party, i.e., a cloud computing service
provider. While sending the data on the cloud, there may be a chance
that your organization's information is hacked by Hackers

types of Cloud
There are the following 4 types of cloud that you can deploy according to
the organization's needs-

o Public Cloud
o Private Cloud
o Hybrid Cloud
o Community Cloud
Public Cloud
Public cloud is open to all to store and access information via the
Internet using the pay-per-usage method.

In public cloud, computing resources are managed and operated by the

Cloud Service Provider (CSP).

Example: Amazon elastic compute cloud (EC2), IBM SmartCloud

Enterprise, Microsoft, Google App Engine, Windows Azure Services
Platform.

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Advantages of Public Cloud

There are the following advantages of Public Cloud -

o Public cloud is owned at a lower cost than the private and hybrid
cloud.
o Public cloud is maintained by the cloud service provider, so do not
need to worry about the maintenance.
o Public cloud is easier to integrate. Hence it offers a better flexibility
approach to consumers.
o Public cloud is location independent because its services are
delivered through the internet.
o Public cloud is highly scalable as per the requirement of computing
resources.
o It is accessible by the general public, so there is no limit to the
number of users.

Disadvantages of Public Cloud

o Public Cloud is less secure because resources are shared publicly.
 o Performance depends upon the high-speed internet network link to
the cloud provider.
o The Client has no control of data.

Private Cloud
Private cloud is also known as an internal cloud or corporate cloud. It
is used by organizations to build and manage their own data centers
internally or by the third party. It can be deployed using Opensource tools
such as Openstack and Eucalyptus.

Based on the location and management, National Institute of Standards

and Technology (NIST) divide private cloud into the following two parts-

o On-premise private cloud

o Outsourced private cloud

Advantages of Private Cloud

There are the following advantages of the Private Cloud -

o Private cloud provides a high level of security and privacy to the

users.
o Private cloud offers better performance with improved speed and
space capacity.
o It allows the IT team to quickly allocate and deliver on-demand IT
resources.
o The organization has full control over the cloud because it is
managed by the organization itself. So, there is no need for the
organization to depends on anybody.
o It is suitable for organizations that require a separate cloud for their
personal use and data security is the first priority.
Disadvantages of Private Cloud
o Skilled people are required to manage and operate cloud services.
o Private cloud is accessible within the organization, so the area of
operations is limited.
o Private cloud is not suitable for organizations that have a high user
base, and organizations that do not have the prebuilt infrastructure,
sufficient manpower to maintain and manage the cloud.

Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud is a combination of the public cloud and the private cloud.
we can say:

Hybrid Cloud = Public Cloud + Private Cloud

Hybrid cloud is partially secure because the services which are running on
the public cloud can be accessed by anyone, while the services which are
running on a private cloud can be accessed only by the organization's
users.

Example: Google Application Suite (Gmail, Google Apps, and Google

Drive), Office 365 (MS Office on the Web and One Drive), Amazon Web
Services.

Advantages of Hybrid Cloud

There are the following advantages of Hybrid Cloud -

o Hybrid cloud is suitable for organizations that require more security

than the public cloud.
o Hybrid cloud helps you to deliver new products and services more
quickly.
o Hybrid cloud provides an excellent way to reduce the risk.
o Hybrid cloud offers flexible resources because of the public cloud
and secure resources because of the private cloud.
Disadvantages of Hybrid Cloud
o In Hybrid Cloud, security feature is not as good as the private cloud.
o Managing a hybrid cloud is complex because it is difficult to manage
more than one type of deployment model.
o In the hybrid cloud, the reliability of the services depends on cloud
service providers.

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Community Cloud
Community cloud allows systems and services to be accessible by a group
of several organizations to share the information between the
organization and a specific community. It is owned, managed, and
operated by one or more organizations in the community, a third party, or
a combination of them.

Example: Health Care community cloud

Advantages of Community Cloud

There are the following advantages of Community Cloud -

o Community cloud is cost-effective because the whole cloud is being

shared by several organizations or communities.
o Community cloud is suitable for organizations that want to have a
collaborative cloud with more security features than the public
cloud.
o It provides better security than the public cloud.
o It provdes collaborative and distributive environment.
o Community cloud allows us to share cloud resources, infrastructure,
and other capabilities among various organizations.
Disadvantages of Community Cloud
o Community cloud is not a good choice for every organization.
o Security features are not as good as the private cloud.
o It is not suitable if there is no collaboration.
o The fixed amount of data storage and bandwidth is shared among
all community members.

o What is Data?
o The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are
performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the
form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or
mechanical recording media.
o Now, let’s learn Big Data definition

o What is Big Data?

o Big Data is a collection of data that is huge in volume, yet growing
exponentially with time. It is a data with so large size and complexity
that none of traditional data management tools can store it or process
it efficiently. Big data is also a data but with huge size.