Cloud computing delivered in mainly below three forms…
IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service)
PaaS ( Platform as a Service)
SaaS ( Software as a Service)
IaaS is widely used terms when you talk about the infrastructure and physical or virtual machines and their resources and related security protocols. There are numerous IAAS providers in the Cloud Industry like ..Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode , Google Cloud etc.
PaaS provides the platform to serve the computing power which includes operating system, programming language execution environment, database, web server etc. Some examples are … AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Force.com, Google App Engine etc.
SaaS represents Software as a Service on any Virtual Machine or Dedicated or Shared Server. This are mainly on demand softwares runs in the cloud. SaaS is most famous word in software industry because you don’t have to worry about the installation , patches, security or any maintenance all done by service provider (you just have to use the software from any device and from anywhere). Most email platforms are going SaaS and most CRM and ERP softwares are going SaaS model to give flexibility and scalability to their users. Some examples are ….Google G Suite, Office 365, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, HubSpot etc.
Regardless of any kind of platform is used all the platforms are secure and scalable as per your business or personal needs.
(If you search internet most of the good softwares are going SaaS model due to its popularity and flexibility. Most Music is going Cloud like Netflix, YouTube, Spotify etc.)
This is a very broad question and therefore it may fail to solicit the exact answers you may be looking for Manar Joundy.
Basically from our emails that you can access from any geographical point and any device is an application of Cloud Computing. However, there are a number of articles that looked at cloud computing that I think can assist you.
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I think we do everything in our lives through cloud computing applications.
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Yes, if we talk as a non-IT person, even then we are using a lot of cloud applications in our mobile devices. For example, DropBox ( used for storing and sharing media and docs), OneDrive ( same as DropBox), GoogleDrive ( same as DropBox and OneDrive), Fb, Instagram, Pinterest ( Used for sharing and storing daily updates and news ), Saavn, Gaana, Youtube ( for accessing and sharing audio and video files ) and many more. It depends on how you want to use cloud services, the providers are providing them anyways.
We use so many applications in our daily life which we don't realize are cloud based. For example, Gmail. Its a type of Software as a Service application. Some more examples are Dropbox, Facebook, Google Drive.
Others are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and many more.
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