Harnessing Cloud

Getting aloft.

Cloud Computing can sound like an ethereal term, we are told it has huge benefits, can offer increased flexibility and enable agility. What does all this mean from a practical point of view? What specific day to day problems does it solve?

By removing the dependency on infrastructure hardware Cloud Computing can solve day to day requirements in a streamlined and agile way. Outsourcing the IT costs and responsibilities can either reduce your costs or free up your on site hardware for alternative uses.

If a server goes down, a new exact copy can be up and running within minutes. You can have a pool of differing environments ready to be used, as often as necessary and scaled on demand. Systems can be started, deployed to and shutdown at the click of a button. Having base configurations is possible while mutating those can be achieved through attaching different tool sets at runtime.

The Cloud makes all of this possible. The environments that run our software are no longer static millstones around our necks that take a week to upgrade or cost a fortune in hardware, they are components in our software development lifecycle that can be rapidly altered, created or destroyed at will.

There are several Cloud providers out there, each having a set of tools, as well as the option of in house or private clouds. To take full advantage of The Cloud, abstracting your mechanisms for interfacing with it is essential, how do you do that? We have your Answer.

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