Security Framework For Business Clouds

Running head: CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud computing
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Different types of cloud services:
Firstly, there is IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service. It is a model where the virtualized
infrastructure is provided and managed for the business through eternal cloud providers. Then there
is PaaS or Platform as a service. Here, the cloud vendors provide computing resources with
hardware and infrastructure elements like operating systems and middleware needed to create and
test different applications. Then there is SaaS that involves PaaS and IaaS. The cloud service
providers provide the total software suite according to the pay-per-use model (Almorsy, Grundy &
Müller, 2016).
Pros and cons of choosing cloud service solution over an in-house IT solution:
The benefits are that there is no necessity of onsite capital expenses or hardware costs. The
storages can be included as per necessities. The resource and backup are initiated from any place
through smartphone, tablet and computer. The information can be backed up in the cloud with
regular internal as fifteen-minute intervals. The expenses of data can outweigh the advantage for a
business that is never reliable on instant recovery or uptime (Rittinghouse & Ransome 2017).
Further, the business has no limit to data that could be get stored in the cloud because of the
availability of storage and expenses. As the Internet comes down on one side, one never require to
access the data. Besides, the total recovery of data can prove to be highly time consuming and
influential to systems.
The reason why cloud services are appreciated by IT professionals:
This largely affects information technology costs and labors. There is no necessity of paying
regular wages to the professionals simply taking those services. This has been much more scalable in
nature and provides secured and better storages. The safety, data security or protection is the main