Cloud computing

WHAT IS MEANT BY CLOUD COMPUTING? www.sbasetech.net

THOUGH THE WORD ‘CLOUD COMPUTING’ IS A REAL BUZZ WORD AND EVERYWHERE, MUCH OF THE PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS AND FUNCTIONS. SHORTLY, CLOUD COMPUTING IS NOTHING BUT STORING AND ACCESSING DATA AND PROGRAMS USING THE INTERNET INSTEAD OF COMPUTER’S HARD DISK DRIVE.

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SOME OF THE MAJOR CLOUD COMPUTING EXAMPLES WHICH ALL OF US ARE PROBABLY USING :

Google Drive: Yes! Google Drive is the purest form of cloud computing service where all the access and storage found in online. It works with the cloud apps such as Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. It is available in desktop computers and you can use it on tablets As well as you can also use it smartphones and there are separate apps for Docs and Sheets, as well. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps and so on Google services are considered as cloud computing. www.sbasetech.net

Apple iCloud: It is primarily used for online storage, backup and to synchronize mail, contacts, calendar and more. All the data is available in iOS, Mac OS, or to the windows users who installed iCloud control panel. Apple offers cloud-based version of its word processor, spreadsheet and presentations for use by any iCloud subscriber. iPhone users can utilize iCloud feature when they lost their handsets.

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Amazon Cloud Drive: Storage at the giant e-commerce retailer is mainly for mp3 music that you purchase from Amazon. Along with it image prime at Amazon offers unlimited image storage. The retailer also holds anything you buy for kindle. It baked into all its products and services.

Box, SugarSync and Dropbox are known to be Hybrid services which work in the cloud because they store a synced version of users’ files online, and also sync those files with local storage. Cornerstone of the cloud computing experience is known to be Synchronization.

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