Impact of Cloud Computing on Computer Networks and the Role of Network Professionals

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
How the shift towards cloud computing has impacted the industry?..............................................1
How the job role of network professionals has evolved to meet the technical challenges of the
cloud?...............................................................................................................................................2
How RESTful Web Services have been used to facilitate these changes?......................................3
Why software defined networking has become so heavily adapted by industry, despite meaning
an adaptation to the job role of network engineers?........................................................................4
Why standards, such as json and REST have been selected and utilised? Specifically consider
interoperability.................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Computer networks can be defined as the computer devices which are interconnected in
order to exchange data and sharing of the resources with each other. These are the networked
devices which uses the system of rules which is known as the communication protocols in order
to transfer the data using physical and wireless technologies. Cloud computing is defined as the
on demand availability of the resources of the computer systems which includes the data storage
and computing power without any direct active management by the user. There are large clouds
which has the distributed functions over the more than one locations and each having the
location with data centre. It basically involves in delivering the hosted services using the internet.
Such services are classified as infrastructure as a service and platform as a service and software
as a service. Cloud networking is basically the form of IT infrastructure in which the
organizations capabilities of networking are resources are hosted in a private or a public cloud
platform. It is managed by the in house and by the service provider which has the availability on
demand (Stergiou, Plageras, Psannis and Gupta, 2020). The following discussion is based on the
exploring of how the field of computer networks has moved towards a greater emphasis on
software, with a particular focus on cloud computing.
How the shift towards cloud computing has impacted the industry?
Shift towards cloud computing has impacted in a positive manner on the industry. Cost
saving is one of the impact of cloud computing on the industry. This is because management of
data in a manual manner or in a traditional manner takes up the huge cost of human resources
and other physical resources but cloud computing has the only cost of the the internet and
maintenance. Security is an another impact of cloud computing on the industry. This is because
sharing of the resources through the cloud is safe without any breaches or sharing of other
computing resources as well. Flexibility is also one of the impact of cloud computing on the
industry (Torquato and Vieira, 2020). This is because cloud computing can be used by users any
time and any where which provides the mobility services as well therefore, it is basically flexible
in nature in using it any time, there is no time boundation of using the cloud services. Mobility is
also an another impact of cloud computing on the industry. The reason being is that the users
carry their mobile phones any where they visit so that can access their computing resources from
any where whenever they needs for the personal as well as for the professional use. Increased
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