“Cloud Computing “– A Big Name in Internet Business

This is the age of technology. With the help of modern technology we can do many hard work very fast and easy way. Internet is a very important part of human life now days. We take the help of internet in both our personal and corporate life. With the help of internet we can access lots of information’s from any part of the world in a very fast way.

As the technology become much more advanced the internet also become very much advanced. In the field of internet the most important term is “Server”. A server is a place where we can store and access a huge amount of data through internet. In the ultra-modern age of internet a very use full term is “cloud computing”. In simple term “cloud computing” can be define as storage and access data and programs through internet which are stored in the hard drive of local computer. We can explain it by a simple example- as we store different data and programs in the hard drive of our computer and can access it directly or through Local Area Network (LAN) connection. In cloud computing we can access the data of our local hard drive through internet in a very fast way and from any corner of the world.

Cloud Computing

It may be a big question in the mind of many people that how this cloud computing system works? The answer is that there is much software to run this cloud computing system. A brief idea about some cloud computing software are given below

• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): In this system a business subscribe to this application and can access the data through internet.


• Platform –as-a-Service (Paas): Here a business can create its own custom application for use by all in the company.




• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): Here some famous websites like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon provides a readymade infrastructure which can be rented by other companies.

Following are some examples of cloud service providers and cloud Drive

• Google Drive: It is a cloud computing service provided by the Google. Here we can store a huge amount of data and access it any time online. We can access this drive not only from the PC but also from the tablet, ipad and smart phones


• Apple icloud: Apple’s cloud service is primarily used for storage and synchronizes all the data like mail, contact, calendar etc. I cloud also stores media files.


• Amazon Cloud Drive: Storage at the big retailer is mainly for music preferably MP3s that we purchase from Amazon.

Advantages of Cloud Computing: Following are the advantage of cloud computing

• By cloud computing system we can access the data and programs stored in the local hard drive through internet any time anywhere.


• It makes the server fast and time consuming.


• This makes the documents sharable that is the documents can be access by more than one user.