Last updated: July 3, 2022
Cloud Computing is revolutionizing the way business data is backed up. Thanks to the cloud, businesses benefit from greater flexibility and lower costs. However, cloud computing is also risky.
Information security, data protection and law enforcement are among the issues for further consideration.
I gave you in the previous article the dangers of the cloud Comptuing, in this article we will see in detail what are the different Cloud computing service models: IAAS for the hardware, EASTER for middleware and SAAS for software.
IaaS
Le cloud model the best known is the infrastructure cloud or IaaS. This is a model where the company has access to an IT infrastructure (servers, storage, network) which is physically located at the supplier's premises through a paid subscription.
Previously, the client company rented a physical server with specific characteristics; it can now rent a server whose resources can dynamically evolve according to its needs. In IaaS, only the material infrastructure (hardware) is dematerialized. For example, computer archiving for backup reasons which is done by companies who wish to not only have the data internally.
PaaS
This type of Cloud Computing makes it possible to provide businesses or individuals with a quickly available execution environment, giving them control of the applications that they can install, configure and use themselves. It allows you to outsource the hardware infrastructure, but also middleware applications (database, programming language).
These platforms can therefore be used directly by publishers who will offer their software in Cloud mode. It therefore makes it possible to host applications that are not adapted to the SaaS model.
PAAS offers generally include the notions of processor time, storage space used and bandwidth consumed. The user company will then pay according to what it has consumed.
SaaS
Finally, the most successful version of Cloud Computing is the SAAS mode for Software As A service.
Here, the user company is completely detached from hardware and software issues.
SAAS is in fact the proposition of software packages in service mode without operations for the company that uses them. SAAS therefore offers applications made available to end users. You will only need an internet connection and a browser and the applications are then accessible via a computer but also a smartphone or tablet.
Known examples of software sold in SaaS are Google Apps, Office Web Apps or Microsoft Live.
Here is a diagram which illustrates the characteristics of the three main models of use of Cloud:
