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cloud technology | how it works
Cloud technology works in a slightly different way to traditional telecoms and IT infrastructure, and major cost savings are made because there is no capital expenditure or major monthly leasing charges. The concept of the cloud has been around for a long time in many different incarnations in the business world. Basically it's a bank of remote servers hosting service oriented architecture to deliver software and data. It's the technology that runs sites like Facebook, twitter and Amazon and the structure that allows services such as hotmail.
What differentiates the cloud from 'traditional' servers is that the cloud utilises the resources from the remote hosted service, where the applications can run independently from particular computers or server configurations. With telecoms and the internet, the need to have your own pbx or server is becoming less essential as a lot of the software available now is completely web-based.
The cloud works on layers. The front-end layers are the ones you see and interact with. For example, when you access your email on hotmail, your Facebook account and even your one net phone, you are using software running on the front-end of a cloud. The back-end consists of the hardware and the software architecture that fuels the interface you see on the front end. Because the computers are set up to work together, the applications can take advantage of all that computing power and flexibility. Depending on the demand, you can increase how much of the cloud resource you use without the need for assigning specific hardware for the job, or even reduce the amount of resource assigned when necessary, making the solution totally scaleable.
