White Paper: C -Level Guide To Cloud Computing Or Cloud Computing Simplified

The concept of cloud computing has proliferated within organizations due to the great success stories circulated in the media. This guide will be a quick, high—level guide to cloud computing of what it entails, architecture, uses, benefits and how cloud computing can help your organization.

Cloud computing is defined as a style of computing that involves the use of products and/or services which are deliverable over the internet. This can include anything from applications, databases, infrastructure, platform, administration, storage, network capacity and all types of functions that are delivered by data centers and internal IT teams. It essentially extends resources while bringing the applicability of the web to the enterprise.

Cloud architecture can be compared to that of common internal stacks today. Cloud architecture contains: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) , Platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (Saas). These can be compared to the network, database and application levels of common software.