What is cloud service?

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The cloud service is spoken in vernacular as "Network Service". It can be regarded as a kind of cloud service to use the network to communicate the operation of multiple mobile phone or computer equipment, or to obtain the service provided by remote host through network.

Cloud Computing is the development of distributed processing (distributed Computing), parallel processing (Parallel Computing), and Grid computing (grid Computing), or the commercial realization of these concepts of computer science. Many companies in the multinational IT industry, such as IBM, Yahoo, and Google, are using the concept of cloud computing to peddle their products and services.

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Cloud Services

The advantage of the cloud service is that the enterprise does not need to invest a lot of fixed assets to purchase hardware and software, nor needs to increase the information management personnel, as long as the cloud service provider to provide services, in a short period of time can quickly obtain services. This is going to be a big help for some of the business operations that are running in the second few counts.

With the technology of virtualization, enterprises in the cloud data backup and redundancy will be a considerable degree of protection. This allows companies to put data and applications in the cloud, through the network to enable each branch to obtain services in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the optional service on demand, speed up the overall company's operational efficiency. In addition, the overall network device will cover the PC, NB, smart phones, e-books, and so on, together with the popularization of the Internet, the wave of globalization, the Office of Action will be more urgent to obtain information. And the services provided by cloud service providers allow information flow to flow into their handheld devices at any time, and making rapid decisions will be the key to enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises.

For example: A company's business executives often visit customers outside, because only NB and wireless network online, sometimes unable to timely grasp the company's important e-mail, missed opportunities. B Company's business staff use the cloud service to actively push the company's e-mail to their own smart phone, when a company's business is still how to connect the network, B Company's business has been the customer's latest e-mail message to respond quickly. So the advantage of using cloud services is to let small and medium-sized enterprises do not have to invest in fixed assets, but also can quickly have an excellent operating system, enterprises as long as focus on their core value, other troublesome system construction and maintenance work to the service provider is good.

At present, cloud services are not only limited to enterprise applications, but also to the development of smart phone applications, for example, smartphone users can back up the phone address book to the cloud, so that in the loss of mobile phone or change the card can directly use the cloud service software restore, so that people more fully feel the internet era of multiple meta-life and convenient service.


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