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What can we gain benefits from cloud?
Cloud computing brings many benefits :
A. For the market and enterprises
Reduce initial investment
Reduce capital expenditure
Improve industrial specialization
Improve resource utilization
B. For the end user and individuals
Reduce local computing power
Reduce local storage power
Variety of thin client devices in daily life
Benefits for market and enterprises
Reduce initial investment
Traditional process of enterprises to initiate business :
Survey and analysis the industry and market
Estimate the quantity of supply and demand
Purchase and deploy IT infrastructure
Install and test the software system
Design and develop enterprise specific business service
Announce the business service to clients
Some drawbacks :
The survey, analysis and estimation may not 100% correct
Infrastructure deployment is time consuming
Enterprises should take the risk of wrong investment
Initiate business with Cloud Computing services :
Survey and analysis the industry and market
Chose one cloud provider for enterprise deployment
Design and develop business service upon cloud environment
Announce the business service to clients
Some benefits :
Enterprise do not need to own the infrastructure
Enterprise can develop and deploy business service in short time
Enterprise can reduce the business loss of wrong investment
What does cloud computing achieve ?
Reduce capital expenditure
Traditional capital expenditure of enterprises :
Each enterprise should establish its own IT department
IT department should handle the listing jobs
Manage and administrate hardware and software
Apply regular data backup and check point process
Purchase new infrastructure and eliminate outdated one
Always standby for any unexpected IT problems
Some drawbacks :
Enterprise pays for IT investment which is not its business focus
Enterprise should take the risk of hardware/software malfunction
Replacing and updating infrastructure is time consuming and risky
Capital expenditure with Cloud Computing service :
Enterprise can almost dismiss its IT department
The jobs of IT department can be achieved by cloud provider
Dynamically update and upgrade hardware or software
Dynamically provision and deploy infrastructure for enterprise
Automatically backup data and check consistency
Self-recover from disaster or system malfunction
Some benefits :
Enterprise can shift effort to its business focus
Enterprise can reconfigure its IT services in short time
Enterprise pays to cloud provider as many as the service used
What dose cloud computing achieve ?
Improve Industrial specialization.
Traditional industry and market :
Every enterprise has to own its IT department
IT resource is managed by enterprise themselves
IT complexity should be well taken care by enterprise themselves
Some drawbacks :
IT department is not the business focus of enterprise
Most of enterprises do not well maintain their IT resources
Enterprise seldom optimizes their IT resource usage
Collaboration with Cloud providers :
Cloud providers centrally maintain IT infrastructure for clients
Cloud providers employ experts for management and administration
Cloud providers focus on providing reliable IT services
Enterprises only rent the service they need and care
Some benefits :
Industrial specialization will be improved
IT service performance will be optimized
Enterprise business focus will be enhanced
IT resource waste will be reduced
What does cloud computing engine?
Traditional industry and market :
Enterprise seldom takes care about IT resource utilization
Enterprise owns their IT resource without well management
IT resource usually over invested for peak demand
Some drawbacks :
Power and space utilization among enterprises are wasted
IT resources across enterprises cannot be shared
Collaboration with Cloud providers :
IT resources are centrically managed and optimized
Cloud provider builds performance optimized hardware
Cloud provider builds consolidated cooling system
Cloud provider will consider the geographic issues
Cloud provider will consider legal policy issues
Some benefits :
IT infrastructure can be shared among enterprises
IT infrastructure performance and utilization can be optimized
Large-scale integrated optimization can be applied
What is cloud computing in chief?
Benefits for end user and individual
Reduce Local Computing Power
Traditional local computing power requirement :
One need to buy your own personal computer
Buy powerful processor if you need intensive computing
Buy large memory to meet application requirement
Install plenty of applications in need
Some drawbacks :
One can hardly replicate the same system environment
One needs to regularly update or upgrade software and hardware
One needs to reinstall all applications if you reinstall the OS
Using Cloud Computing services :
One can utilize the remote computing power in the cloud
One needs only basic computing power to connect to internet
Application in the cloud will automatically upgrade
Some benefits :
One can access his/her applications anywhere through the Internet
One can dynamically request for computing power on demand
Application may need not to be reinstalled even reinstall the OS
What is cloud computing achieve?
Reduce local storage power
Traditional local storage power requirement :
User programs and data files are stored in local devices
User has to backup data regularly preventing hardware damage
Some drawbacks :
Storage e may not enough for burst data requirement
Storage space may be over needed which result in resource waste
Data consistency is hard to maintain between computers
Need to sacrifice part of storage space for data backup
Using Cloud Computing services :
User programs and data files are stored in the cloud
Cloud service provider will guarantee the data availability
Some benefits :
One can dynamically allocate storage space on demand
One can access data anywhere through the Internet
No need to care about data consistency between computers
No need to care about data loss due to hardware damage
What does cloud computing achieve?
Variety of End devices
Traditional computing resource :
One can connect to the Internet by personal computer
Only personal computer can deliver reasonable computing power
Small devices cannot perform incentive computation due to their power and hardware limitation
Some drawbacks :
Computing power is not portable
Small devices can only perform simplified works
Devices collaborate with Cloud services :
Device connects to the Internet through wireless network
Device accesses cloud services through web service interface
Device sends computing incentive jobs into cloud and wait for results
Some benefits :
User can easily access cloud service through small devices
User can access almost unlimited computing power anywhere
Small devices can be intelligently managed through cloud
What does cloud computing achieve?
