Most of us had mostly heard about the Cloud and also its uses for different business purposes. But some of us would not be knowing that even cloud is divided into different cloud types which are used for different purposes. The company should be clear about their requirements before moving to any cloud because the selection of wrong cloud type may end up them in trouble.
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Let’s first understand features of each type of cloud in addition to how they work.
Types of Clouds:
Basically, there are 3 types of clouds namely Private Cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.
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Private Cloud:
- A cloud platform which has a secure environment with a particular amount of storage in addition to hardware to a single organization is known as the private cloud.
- Private cloud can be hosted within an organization.
- In private cloud, company stores their confidential data, therefore, no third party can access that data.
Advantages and disadvantages of the private cloud:
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Public Cloud:
- A cloud platform that is based on standard cloud computing model in which service provider offers resources, applications storage to the customers over the internet is called as public cloud computing.
- Most of all hardware resources or the storage are shared among many similar users over the internet.
- Startups or SME’s are keen to save money, therefore, they prefer public cloud.
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Hybrid Cloud:
- Hybrid cloud is a combination of both private and public cloud.
- Using hybrid cloud, documents which do not require any security can be transferred using public cloud and for to make it more secure data transfer one can customize their cloud, using private cloud
- Hybrid cloud is gaining more attention due to combined benefits of both models.
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Let’s compare this 3 different clouds to get better insight:
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Deployment | Vendor | Vendor | Shared between vendor and customer |
Hardware Sharing | Shared | Dedicated | Partially shared partially dedicated |
Scalability | High | High | High |
Predictable Cost | No | Yes | No |
Flexibility | Yes | Limited | Yes |
Customization | No | Depends on Vendor | Partial |
Security | No | Yes | Yes |
Instant Provisioning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
(can we provide vendor/customer meaning here, also recheck these details with our developer once)
Adoption of different clouds in the market:
- According to RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report, there are 85% of the total organization who are using multi-clouds
- 9% of this is using only public cloud whereas 5% of the total are using only private cloud
How DevOpsTech helps to select correct cloud according to client’s necessity:
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Private Cloud:
We believe that despite the customer preference is tilting majorly towards public cloud computing, private cloud sector still remains very vital. Hence, our private cloud implementation services take into consideration both the current business needs and the future anticipated need. Some of the highlights are:
- Control by Comprehensive monitoring, tracking
- Adherence to security needs and compliance
- Trusted end to end managed services
- Flexibility based on business demand
- Backup and Disaster recovery options
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Hybrid Cloud:
What we propose and offer to customers through our Hybrid Cloud computing model are future businesses with a competitive edge through the capability to switch between clouds, which furthermore achieve flexible high-end solutions and a noteworthy on-demand resource utilization. Some of our service Highlights are:
- Different cloud model capabilities to suit business
- Strong customer support and also well-defined SLAs
- Continuous amalgamation of public and private cloud infrastructure
- We offer credible redundancy that avoids single points of failure such as network connectivity.
- Our specialized team of consultants assists you in analyzing how resources are being utilized in the current state and how should they go about planning their future utilization.
Conclusion:
Although each type of cloud has their own positive and negative sides, the Hybrid cloud looks more booming in market trend but one should always be clear about their requirements before finalising any cloud. (check full stops everywhere, I have added now but dont miss it again)
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