Integrating Cloud applications
The new buzz is about using the cloud for your business prosecces. Wikipedia says:
The principle behind the cloud is that any computer connected to the Internet is connected to the same pool of computing power, applications, and files. Users can store and access personal files such as music, pictures, videos, and bookmarks or play games or do word processing on a remote server rather than physically carrying around a storage medium such as a DVD or thumb drive. Even those using web-based email such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, a company-owned email, or even an e-mail client program such as Outlook, Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Entourage are making use of cloud email servers. Hence, desktop applications that connect to internet-host email providers can also be considered cloud applications. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Introduction)
A company capable to have all of it's information and applications based in The Cloud takes advantage of the following properties of cloud computing:
- Cost saving on IT infrastructure cost. Locally installed servers for applications and data storage are no longer needed
- Users can access their business data from any location that has a web browser connected to the Internet.
- PC's Mac's, Tablets and Smartphones having a webbrowser allow access on demand.
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