Cloud Talk | How Can Cloud Computing Help You. 4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient. There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions averaging 95 percent for companies that shift to using the cloud. I can think of four reasons why cloud computing is (with few exceptions) significantly more energy efficient than using in-house data centers: 1. Economies of scale. It’s cheaper for bigger cloud computing folks to make efficiency improvements because they can spread the costs over a larger server base and can afford to have more dedicated folks focused on efficiency improvements.
There’s also a substantial advantage to having “in house” expertise devoted to efficiency, instead of having staff split between different jobs. 2. 3. 4. Of course, there are still issues to work out. Cloud Hosting: How Does it Really Work? The Internet has expanded so quickly in just a couple of decades. This growth has also accompanied a tremendous uptick in technological advancement allowing Internet speeds to increase while server costs have dramatically fallen. I’m sure by now most of you have heard about hosting your files “within the cloud”.
More advanced hosting companies have begun to offer cloud hosting solutions. But what does this really mean? (Image source: Fotolia) I’d like to spend some time looking further into the details of cloud hosting. Many of these questions can be answered with just a bit of information. Defining the Cloud Technologists tend to provide an overly-complicated answer to the question “what is the cloud?”. (Image source: Fotolia) When you get into cloud hosting these server farms behave as one large storage space and processor. The Cloud vs. Is there really a difference between these terms? (Image source: Fotolia) Division of Computing Power Amazon Web Services Web Apps in the Cloud Conclusion. What Is Cloud Storage? How Cloud Storage Works" Comedian George Carlin has a routine in which he talks about how humans seem to spend their lives accumulating "stuff. " Once they've gathered enough stuff, they have to find places to store all of it.
If Carlin were to update that routine today, he could make the same observation about computer information. It seems that everyone with a computer spends a lot of time acquiring data and then trying to find a way to store it. For some computer owners, finding enough storage space to hold all the data they've acquired is a real challenge. Some people invest in larger hard drives. Others prefer external storage devices like thumb drives or compact discs. Desperate computer owners might delete entire folders worth of old files in order to make space for new information. While cloud storage sounds like it has something to do with weather fronts and storm systems, it really refers to saving data to an off-site storage system maintained by a third party.