Cloud Computing 101 Part 3
So how do we apply cloud computing?
Say your company is organizing a nation wide event. A marathon for example. Banks love to organize marathons. :P Now, you will want to start a website for this marathon. This increases your online presence for marketing, as well as other functions like collecting payment and disseminating information. So for this period of the event, say one month, your company website will probably receive an additional 10,000 visits a day.
Are you going to buy a new server to run this website? Of course not! No IT savvy and informed person will do that. Your servers should be reserved for your core business applications like accounting, banking, customer database, etc. So the solution - simple! Host your event website in the clouds!
Let's take another example. Say your company have been accumulating hundreds and thousands or hard copy documents over the years. One day, your boss have this revelation that all these documents can be stored in soft copy to save space.
You have been given the task to get all these documents scanned, processed, sorted and filed - all in one week. That's not impossible anymore! By hosting your OCR application in the clouds, you can increase your number of server to hundreds for that one week. Hundreds of servers on demand. Immense amount of additional processing power at your disposal. Your project completed well within stipulated time. Once your project ended? Simply reduce all the servers to what you need.
Cloud computing? Your answer to impossible tasks.
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