What are the different deployment models?
Cloud computing supports many deployment models and they are as follows:
• Private Cloud
Organizations choose to build there private cloud as to keep the strategic,
operation and other reasons to themselves and they feel more secure to do it.
It is a complete platform which is fully functional and can be owned, operated
and restricted to only an organization or an industry. More organizations have
moved to private clouds due to security concerns. Virtual private cloud is
being used that operate by a hosting company.
• Public Cloud
These are the platforms which are public means open to the people for use and
deployment. For example, google, amazon etc. They focus on a few layers like
cloud application, infrastructure providing and providing platform markets.
• Hybrid Clouds
It is the combination of public and private cloud. It is the most robust
approach to implement cloud architecture as it includes the functionalities and
features of both the worlds. It allows organizations to create their own cloud
and allow them to give the control over to someone else as well.
What are the different datacenters deployed for this?
Cloud computing is made up of various datacenters put together in a grid form.
It consists of different datacenters like:
• Containerized Datacenters
These are the traditional datacenters that allow high level of customization
with servers, mainframe and other resources. It requires planning, cooling,
networking and power to access and work.
• Low-Density Datacenters
These datacenters are optimized to give high performance. In these datacenters
the space constraint is being removed and there is an increased density. It has
a drawback that with high density the heat issue also creeps in. These
datacenters are very much suitable to develop the cloud infrastructure.
What is the use of API’s in cloud services?
API stands for Application programming interface is very useful in cloud
platforms as it allows easy implementation of it on the system. It removes the
need to write full fledged programs. It provides the instructions to make the
communication between one or more applications. It also allows easy to create
application with ease and link the cloud services with other systems.
What are the different modes of software as a service?
Software as a Service provides cloud application platform on which user can
create application with the tools provided. The modes of software as a service
are defined as:
1. Simple multi-tenancy: in this each user has its own resources that are
different from other users. It is an inefficient mode where the user has to put
more time and money to add more infrastructure if the demand rises in less time
to deliver.
2. Fine grain multi-tenancy: in this the functionality remains the same that
the resources can be shared to many. But it is more efficient as the resources
are shared not the data and permission within an application.
What is the security aspects provided with cloud?
Security is one of the major aspects which come with any application and service
used by the user. Companies or organizations remain much more concerned with
the security provided with the cloud. There are many levels of security which
has to be provided within cloud environment such as:
• Identity management: it authorizes the application service or hardware
component to be used by authorized users.
• Access control: permissions has to be provided to the users so that they can
control the access of other users who are entering the in the cloud
environment.
• Authorization and authentication: provision should be made to allow the
authorized and authenticated people only to access and change the applications
and data.
What is the difference between traditional datacenters and cloud?
Cloud computing uses the concept of datacenter as it is the datacenter is based
on the tradition one so the difference between them are as follows:
• Cost of the traditional datacenter is higher, due to heating issues and other
hardware/software related issues but this is not the case with the cloud
computing infrastructure.
• It gets scaled when the demand increases. Most of the cost is being spent on
the maintenance being performed on the datacenters, whereas cloud platform
requires minimum maintenance and not very expert hand to handle them.
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