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What is Cloud Computing?

By Andrew Gregson, Novosco Creative Technology Director

Cloud Computing has long been a buzz word in the IT industry. Everyone is jumping on the cloud trend, but what does it really mean for businesses? What options are available today and what are the customer benefits of adopting a cloud IT infrastructure?

It is not surprising that companies find the cloud computing model confusing or fuzzy. Among the jargon however lies a fundamental change in the way IT operates. It’s about looking at ongoing IT costs per user and having a trusted ‘cloud provider’ to worry which technologies/hardware to host your infrastructure on. With cloud providers hosting the infrastructure, companies simply pay a fee per user/per month, with no capital expenditure (CAPEX) to spend. Only when businesses (large & small) start to actively embrace this model, will they realise both the immediate and future benefits of cloud computing.

Novosco’s definition of cloud computing…

Cloud computing provides computing resources on demand and leaves the worry of IT hardware/infrastructure to cloud providers.  Instead of companies buying traditional hardware, they simply avail of a hosted hardware/software platform and rent ‘IT as a service’; taking the form of hosted servers, hosted software applications and hosted online backup.

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