Cloud services. A list of the most common

Cloud services. Dropbox is one of the most popular alternatives for remote storage

The success of the cloud among organizations and, to a lesser extent, among individual users, is due to the fact that IT services outsourcing allows costs to be reduced, resources optimization, and not worry about activities that do not generate value. Of course, not all clients have the same needs, so service providers are obliged to offer different types of options. In this post we are going to comment on some of them.

This article is part of a series that ranges from the fundamentals of cloud computing to descriptions of the open source solutions available. At the end of it you will find the links to the texts already published

Cloud services. List and description of the main

Backup As A Service (BAAS)

It is probably the best known and most used service by home users. Consists in remotely provide data storage space. In the corporate sphere, this service can be contracted as a backup to the information stored locally or as the main means of filing.

In the case of the domestic market, while Microsoft has decided for its customers to integrate user folders with its service by default OneDrive, Linux distributions give the possibility to do the same by logging into one of the online services and configuring a backup automation program to use the shared folder.

I am deliberately putting off talking about solutions like ownCloud and Nextcloud for later. Don't be impatient.

Communications As A Service (CAAS)

It's about renting cloud platforms to establish communication between users. I could make it simpler by naming you some of the most popular services like WhatsApp, Telegram or Skype. Of course, we can also use open source solutions to create our own alternatives.

Desktop As A Service (DAAS)

As a user you get exactly lthe same experience as if you were using the desktop you usually use, just that you do from the browser and does not run on the local machine. Forget about hardware limitations. At this time Microsoft is testing Windows as a service as a beta for customers of its Azure platform, so it would not be ruled out that in the more or less near future traditional Windows will disappear.

If you want to see how a virtual desktop works, on Google you will find several providers that offer the service with options to various Linux distributions and give a free trial period.

Database As A Service (DBAS)

Databases are the most vulnerable part of any computer system. Not only is it where the most sensitive information is stored, it is the resource that needs to be accessed the fastest.

Outsourcing the management of databases reduces risks before system crashes, hardship to cybercriminalss by not hosting them in teams linked to the organization and forget about updating hardware and software.

Hardware As A Service (HAAS)

If instead of writing the post I were reading it, I would immediately go to the comment form to object to the inclusion of this point Are we seriously going to consider renting computers, printers, monitors, and other hardware as a cloud service? With the same criteria, let us include the rental of the physical space. And since we are here, the café that Systems go to can also be considered a Cloud Computing provider.

But, it's in the bibliography, is an outsourced service and available on demand. so I put it on the list and there it stays.

Platform As A Service

How do you distinguish a parrot owned by a software developer from parrots owned by other professions? He is the one who repeats without stopping "On my computer it works well." The truth is that There are so many hardware and software combinations that building applications that work seamlessly in all of them is a daunting task.

Or it was until the emergence of platforms as a service. If you have ever used Virtualbox or another virtual machine client you will have seen that they have pre-established parameters to install different operating systems and the option to customize them. The PAAS have a similar concept only that the number of available hardware and operating system combinations is increasing exponentially.

In fact, platforms as a service were the reason for Microsoft's change in attitude towards Linux. Satya Nadella, the current president, was responsible for the cloud computing division of the company. You got tired of being asked by customers to be able to run Linux as a requirement to use the Azure platform.

Links to the rest of the articles in the series

Prehistory of cloud computing.
History of cloud computing.
Cloud types. Characteristics of the public cloud.
Characteristics of the private cloud.
Hybrid cloud features.
Characteristics of multiple clouds.


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