Post by account_disabled on Dec 9, 2023 5:04:35 GMT
Microsoft Amazon Web Services Google IBM and other more niche providers. Collectively this is The Cloud. serverless technology Blog Blueberry Consultants It’s your corporate computer like you’ve always known it but in the words of Captain Kirk out there somewhere. In spite of often still held popular misconception in the Board Room cloud computing is MORE secure MOST cost effective MORE reliable and EASIER to maintain than an albeit virtualised chunk of tin in a hopefully dry hopefully locked hopefully maintained basement at HQ. Virtualisation and Virtual Computing Virtualisation was the key technology advance that unlocked the advent of the cloud.
Before virtual computing a program would run literally on a server machine which would have a defined physical amount of processing power CPU memory RAM and disk space. This had many drawbacks. It was inefficient and if the business need for computing power increased Email Marketing List software would begin to run slowly or become unresponsive infuriating users and upgrading could be a costly and time consuming matter often necessitating in house I.T. resource. God forbid the server went down the business went down with it; an unscheduled coffee break for all while customers queued on the phone. Virtualisation began to change that.
Now a single powerful computer or cluster of computers could pretend to be different types of computing resource to suit varying purposes. Effectively the combined computing power of the devices installed is divided up between the software applications that need it in a more efficient manner with spare shared resource available so that power could be added relatively easily if required. Before virtualisation one could rent a server in a data centre. This would be like your traditional office server just not in your offices and maintained by someone somewhere else. But with virtualisation the cloud was truly born because now the data centre provider could fill a large purpose built.
Before virtual computing a program would run literally on a server machine which would have a defined physical amount of processing power CPU memory RAM and disk space. This had many drawbacks. It was inefficient and if the business need for computing power increased Email Marketing List software would begin to run slowly or become unresponsive infuriating users and upgrading could be a costly and time consuming matter often necessitating in house I.T. resource. God forbid the server went down the business went down with it; an unscheduled coffee break for all while customers queued on the phone. Virtualisation began to change that.
Now a single powerful computer or cluster of computers could pretend to be different types of computing resource to suit varying purposes. Effectively the combined computing power of the devices installed is divided up between the software applications that need it in a more efficient manner with spare shared resource available so that power could be added relatively easily if required. Before virtualisation one could rent a server in a data centre. This would be like your traditional office server just not in your offices and maintained by someone somewhere else. But with virtualisation the cloud was truly born because now the data centre provider could fill a large purpose built.