Reason to focus on the SaaS (Software as a Service)

SaaS literally provides the customers with Software as a service. Generally it began as the way of providing Enterprise Software such as HR or CRM Software in the form of services rather than the form of Packaged Software. Now, many categories of application are provided via online. The value delivered to the customer became to be very high compared with the existing On-Premise contract. Interestingly, the fundamental reason to focus on SaaS is that it has potential of changing the whole industry as well as IT sector. IT Utility Service trend is being evolved. Nicholas Carr, in his book 'The Big Switch', comparing ‘Electric Utilities’ with ‘IT Utilities’, claimed that ‘IT’ will advance as a Public Utility Service as the case of ‘Electic’. Companies will not burden of purchasing hardware and software, developing application, and paying for maintenance under such circumstance.

Category of SaaS

- Office Solutions

            

- Desktop Solutions

- Multimedia Solutions

- Enterprise Solutions

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IE Campus is in the cloud

Recently, IE Business School migrated its Campus Online into Amazon Web Services. Group F of N1 Nov. intake 2012 in IE Business School interviewed with Learning Technology Team in IE Business School about its migration on 30th, April, 2013. Let's listen about new environment.

  

 

Understanding PaaS for beginners - What and why is it important?

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is …

A computing platform over the web.  PaaS is to provide environment that allows you to manage, distribute and development for SaaS application (Software as a Service or cloud applications) without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying software/hardware. force.com, Google, and Facebook are leading players.

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Google App Engine is …

 

The cloud-based platform, Google's infrastructure on which web applications run. The users can easily adjust the size of the application based on the increase in traffic.  App Engine developers can choose one of the two pricing policies - free account of 500MB storage with 500 million monthly page views or paid account which provides more resources than the free account while the budget can be allocated as needed.

Do you want to know more PaaS?? Then, here is “The Power of Platform as a Service ” by IBM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1E32xVCsRs

Cloud computing for Enterprises

In our blog we are keen to share with you everything about cloud computing! So if you have a business with  various branches in different cities around the world or  even if you are an IT consultant who works on a multinational company and you are asked to recommend a cloud computing service provider, then we recommend you to check “Flexible Computing Express" by Orange Business services. 

Flexible Computing Express

Design and manage your own IT infrastructure

_ enjoy an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloudcomputing solution

_ rely on applications hosted in certified and highly secure data centers

_ easily manage your infrastructure and IT resources through the Web portal

_ alter them instantly to support peaks in your activity and to develop new applications

_ pay only for what you use without investing in servers, so you minimize your investment and control your costs

for more information about Flexible Computing from Orange, please visit www.mnc.orange-business.com

Wow, Amazon is a clouding service provider. Let's call it as AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) in clouding service. AWS offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps. Amazon began the service with the idea of utilizing stand-by IT assets during off-season.

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is the most typical IaaS service component of Amazon. Amazon virtualized hardware servers and provides the user with virtualized hardware resources, and the user installs OS and soft wares on the virtual machine. The user selects pre-configured OS image and software or just uploads his or her own image in the form of Amazon AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for use. EC2 takes the advantage of being able to install the desired OS and most of the software so as to have high capacity platform for hardware virtualization by default.

Amazon SDB (Simple DB)

Simple DB is data storage service to store key-value data types. It features for storing Key-Value type data with similar way of Cassandra and HBase, faster query, and no restriction for input data. These characteristics called Schemeless, and it provides flexibility for non-relational data stores. Geo Replication is one of the features of the Amazon Simple DB. Geo Replication ensures the stability for the failure through improving the accessibility of data in the Simple DB because it is replicated to the data center of Amazon.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

If the SDB is the simplest form of key-value pairs for small size of data, Amazon S3 is designed for high-capacity storage for the BLOB data such as files, images, videos, and the other types of large size. It does not limit to the number and the size of data that can be stored while supports from 1byte up to 5GB per record.

For further information, welcome to visit below.

http://aws.amazon.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices

Cloud computing is great but what if.... it rained???

Are there problems with this concept?

Of course there are!  If for some reason your internet goes down, your access to your data also disappears. There are security concerns with the data and the risk that companies will use proprietary formats for the files and that require that you pay for a certain service monthly or you may lose access to your own data permanently.

So choose wisely when picking a service to use with your important data and make sure it can be downloaded if needed, but also enjoy the flexibility those services provide. The wave of the future is in the clouds

Will it change the way we use computers?

The transition from being very ‘personal hardware dependent’ to a world where resources are shared among the masses is creeping up on us slowly and unobtrusively. Very many people have already transitioned to using a cloud environment for most of their time in front of the computer without even realizing it. Sure, most of us still use some version of Microsoft Office or Quickbooks that was installed on our computers, but even those kinds of software are now offering an online version that can be used instead. The possibility of being able to access your data and software wherever you need it makes this transition very appealing to most people.

What about you? What cloud services are part of your life?