Know the Cloud Computing Service Models
You may have heard or read about ‘Cloud Computing’ quite often in the last few years. Most often what is shared gives you a vague idea on how cloud services work, and how they tend to benefit your business. It is important to remember that Cloud Computing is not a single entity, but describes a broad range of services. It offers easy to access, on-demand network to a shared pool of users. The idea behind this solution is to make network, servers, storage and applications independent of the users and allow provisioning of these resources. With cloud computing, it is possible to share the same resources between large sections of customers thereby reducing the costs. Cloud Computing generally works under three different service models and here in this write-up we take a look at each of these.
Software As A Service (SaaS) This is the most common application of cloud computing solutions, where the consumer uses a software running on the cloud without installing it to the local system. The greatest advantage with SaaS is that the software would be accessible to the clients for a wide range of devices and, it comes with no restrictions such as location, time hardware or operating system used by the end user. You can access