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email accounts, picture the cloud certainly makes (network operators will have
storage, or office applications. sense. The benefits are the opportunity to guarantee
OGY For the generation of users promising – from lower costs cloud performance service
who have grown up utilising of software licensing to less IT levels with premiums end
such services, the concept of expenditure and the obvious users will be willing to pay).
cloud computing is an easy advantages coming from As more users are willing to
TECHNOL one to grasp and this may standardisation. Moreover, by pay for applications to be
help greatly in encouraging outsourcing these functions accessed via the web and
take-up of more advanced businesses are able to hosted on remote servers,
services at the enterprise concentrate on their core- vendors can offer them as
level. competencies while leaving tiered services.
the administration of their
As the power of cloud servers, applications and data While expecting significant
computing becomes better management to companies cost savings, many enterprises
understood and the services that specialise in this space will demand service level
OUD COMPUTING offered across it expand and and can offer round the clock agreements (SLA’s) to ensure
CL improve, businesses will be service. the performance does not
increasingly more attracted to impact their mission critical
the technology – due to its The impact of cloud applications. Storage
inherent value and simplicity. computing on storage applications that leverage the
As a result, IT applications networks cloud will have many
such as storage can easily be With virtualisation and cloud opportunities to command
offered through the cloud and computing, the data storage premiums for the level of
will be preferred over and exchange that was service they offer.
traditional ‘home grown’ or traditionally regionalised to
customised applications. More the office network is moved to For example, a small retail
complex applications will also the much larger and more store may only need the basic
find value being placed into resilient network cloud. In storage service, but a large
the ‘cloud’ although their most cases, when accessing bank will demand SLA’s on
uptake may not be so cloud based services, people latency, availability and
straightforward. What is clear, will be using broadband bandwidth guarantees, very
however, is that cloud services and the Internet often with strong damages for
computing will eliminate many cloud. non-performance. Because the
aspects of IT that have operator is now offering both
traditionally required internal This leads to a rise in network and software based
IT teams - which will appeal to bandwidth usage across the services, the service provider
businesses both small and Internet, which in turn has should, in fact, be seen as an
large. significant implications for the “applications access provider”
service provider infrastructure – a change in perception that
For example, if we estimate supporting data exchange. For will afford both opportunities
that about 80 percent of a example, enterprises that and risk to the service
company’s local computing implement storage services provider.
resources are unused (e.g. at which trickle across the day
any given moment, we only will have minimal impact, What also significantly impacts
run two or three software while daily (one time) backups service providers’ business
applications on our PC’s such can impact network models, in particular their
as Email, Web browser, leaving performance and/or take too networks and bandwidth
much of its computing much time – unless the requirements, is the increased
potential untouched); placing operators have made a ease to connect to the Web
many of these applications in provision for such events from mobile devices.
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