Different Services of Cloud

The name cloud services is often misunderstood and thought of as just a marketing term to define centralized, mainframe computing. The sheer amount of resources available makes today's cloud computing incomparable to mainframe/terminal host computing. It's nothing for cloud storage providers to quickly add another GB of storage for a customer simply at the customer's request thanks to hosted scalable and flexible cloud-computing resource. It is also a broad umbrella under which many sub-divisions fall. Cloud computing can include Software-as-a-Service where a specific application or service is offered to a customer as a subscription. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) allows businesses a platform on which they can create and deploy custom apps, databases and line-of-business services integrated into one platform. With Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), businesses can purchase infrastructure from providers as virtual resources. Components include servers, memory, firewalls and more.