Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, and Rackspace are examples of cloud platforms that offer IaaS products. AWS's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was one of the first commercially successful IaaS products. AWS EC2 rents out instances from various data centers scattered around the world. Use...
Cloud-native applications take advantage of platforms and processes that were born in the cloud. They’re highly scalable, easy to change, and connect to cloud services to extend capabilities without a lot of coding. Modern developers design, build, and deliver cloud-native applications with the ...
Financial institutions are part of a heavily regulated sector that still relies to a degree on legacy systems (e.g., mainframe-based platforms) to deal with a large amount of sensitive data. A hybrid cloud solution provides a flexible alternative way for banks to isolate this data by hosting ...
A multicloud architecture is born when an organization integrates cloud platforms or services from two or more providers. Sharing data between clouds is a common driver of integration. Depending on the need for data security or low latency, integration can be as easy as defining access methods be...
A multicloud architecture uses multiple cloud platforms from a mix of vendors. When data moves efficiently across clouds, a multicloud environment can help maximize operations while increasing security and collaboration. A multicloud approach comes with numerous potential benefits, including flexibility, ...
Thanks to the cloud-based industrial Internet, the PaaS provided through cloud platforms is facilitating a more convenient software development ecosystem. Today, industrial AI development, which has great prospects for application in industries, tends to be simplified and modularized. Therefore, in the ...
Salesforce named a leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. Read the report The advantages of cloud computing for your business Now that you understand how it works, it’s easy to see that cloud computing has many advantages. Among the most imp...
Storage. Cloud platforms offer vast, scalable storage options using distributed file systems. This allows you to store multiple data types without space concerns. Processing. Cloud-based big data processing can be described in one word — speed. Cloud providers offer tools like Hadoop and Spark tha...
Plethora of cloud options.With so many cloud platforms available and so many different services running on each of them, it can be hard to know which clouds to use. Major public cloud providers AWS, Google and Microsoft dominate the market. But alternative clouds might, in some cases, offer...
PaaS-based: Application developers can use a range of online platforms and tools to create PaaS and mobile applications. Platforms such as Google App Engine, Parse, and AppScale are popular platforms on which web and mobile applications can be built. ...