In the simplest terms, cloud computing is the practice of delivering computing services such as servers, storage, networking, databases, and applications over the internet. In such a delivery model, the consumer, typically a business or an enterprise, only pays for the resources they use without having to pay for the capital investment cost of building and maintaining the data centers.
There are both financial and technological benefits for adopting a cloud computing approach. Companies transform their capital costs to operational costs and are able to pay for what they use rather than pay for idle infrastructure. Cloud computing also eliminates the cost of purchasing and maintaining expensive hardware and ...
