A cloud strategy is a concise point of view on the role of cloud within the organization. It is a living document, designed to bridge between a high-level corporate strategy and a cloud implementation/adoption/migration plan. A well-designed Cloud Strategy will help your business run more seamlessly.
A cloud strategy is the plan an organization follows to host its IT infrastructure in a cloud environment. By outlining the cloud’s architecture, development plans and governance model, cloud strategies help ensure effective performance of the infrastructure, workloads and applications hosted in the cloud.
A cloud solution refers to a computing infrastructure that is accessible over the internet, without being physically proximate to the end user. This means that users can access their data and programs from anywhere, as long as they have an internet connection.
There are many different types of cloud solutions, some of which are better suited to some use-cases than others. Most of the time, people use the term “cloud solution” to refer to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), which provides the computing resources necessary to run a software application or process, such as a database.
Generally speaking, there are three basic types of cloud services:
The most widely recognized type of cloud service is known as software as a service, or SaaS. This broad category encompasses a variety of services, such as file storage and backup, web-based email, and project management tools.
Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, provides the infrastructure that many cloud service providers need to manage SaaS tools—but don’t want to maintain themselves. It serves as the complete datacenter framework, eliminating the need for resource-intensive, on-site installations.
The cloud service model known as platform as a service, or PaaS, serves as a web-based environment where developers can build cloud apps. PaaS provides a database, operating system and programming language that organizations can use to develop cloud-based software.
