Business perspective on Cloud Computing | Enterprise Cloud Hosting

What is Cloud Computing | Cloud Hosting

The answer would depend on whom you are talking to since there are as many definitions as there are shades of grey.

In this white paper, we set out to provide our definition of cloud computing - putting it all in context relative to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Enterprise Cloud Hosting.

There is currently a tremendous amount of interest in Cloud Computing; however, viewed in context, Cloud Computing is the natural evolution of the abstraction concept delivered by virtualisation technology.

“Cloud Computing” is the next stage in the continually evolving concept of computing. This new paradigm is promising to transform the computing model from a largely static connection between Applications and Hardware, and discrete expansion dictated by physical equipment limitations to an integrated computing platform capable of more granular scalability and flexibility.

The current generation of Cloud Hosting offerings are in the main, limited to ready-to-consume software services and in many cases, not suitable for business-grade requirements. These best-effort services lack the necessary features such as Service Level Guarantees (SLG) and Service Assurance to support mission-critical requirements. For business-grade infrastructure services, the latest thinking in Cloud Computing strategy is leaning towards a Enterprise Hybrid Cloud model - which is the federation of a private cloud and an internal enterprise cloud.

As the leader in online mission-critical hosting in Australia, Macquarie Hosting already provides cloud-like ecosystems (Cloud Hosting) for many of our customers today who are on the journey towards private cloud hosting environments.

Find out more about cloud computing and the potential cloud hosting integration issues.

Download the white paper " The Business perspective on Cloud Computing"