Cloud

Cloud applications and data are accessible from virtually any internet-connected device which offers modern businesses advantages.

Cloud services facilitate the flow of user data from front-end clients (e.g., users’ servers, tablets, desktops, laptops—anything on the users’ ends), through the internet, to the provider’s systems, and back. Cloud services promote the building of cloud-native applications and the flexibility of working in the cloud. Users can access cloud services with nothing more than a computer, operating system, and internet connectivity.

All infrastructure, platforms, software, or technologies that users access through the internet without requiring additional software downloads can be considered cloud-computing services—including the following as-a-Service solutions.

Clouds are IT environments that abstract, pool, and share scalable resources across a network. Clouds enable cloud computing, which is the act of running workloads within a cloud environment. Clouds are a type of PaaS, because hardware and an application software platform is provided by another party.