In this article I will attempt to review a little about the characteristics of cloud computing, some Microsoft products associated with the type of cloud service, Azure, and a little explanation about what I got from the seminar at the office of PT Microsoft Indonesia.
Basically cloud computing has five essential character:
1. On-Demand Self Service. Cloud computing service shall be controlled by the users themselves and in accordance with the needs / demands of the user. With a self-serving, expected user can define the limits of the resource used.
2. Broad Network Access. Access an extensive network is a necessity of cloud computing in order to provide a high availability service that allows users to access an unlimited resource without any decrease in performance.
3. Resource Pooling. Because cloud computing service is used by many users, why should the division of resources to meet needs that match the user. Each user will get a room (resource pool) which will be used as needed.
4. Rapid elasticity. This is one of the unique cloud computing where the user can define and change the resource requirements in accordance with the needs anytime and anywhere. Like using a water faucet, turn the faucet user to increase or decrease water flow. Users can freely adjust the resource usage needs anytime and anywhere.
5. Measured Service. Of course cloud computing needs to support scalability in which any use of the resource should always be measured to fit user needs. By measuring the resource usage effectively and efficiently, eating will be able to reduce operating costs (operational expenditure).
As it is known that cloud computing has 3 types of cloud service, namely Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). There have been many articles that explain about three things.
Here are some Microsoft products associated with each type of cloud service.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
1. Microsoft Office 365. Integration of Microsoft Office and some of Microsoft's Server products like Exchange Server, Sharepoint Server, and Lync Server.
2. Microsoft Sharepoint Server. Web application platform for content management and document management. Sharepoint is designed to handle multi-purpose management and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets, websites, document and file management, collaboration spaces, social tools, enterprise search, business intelligence, process integration, system integration, workflow automation, and core infrastructure for third- party solutions.
3. Microsoft Exchange Server. Collaborative application that consists of email, calendar, contacts, and tasks can be synchronized with mobile device-based and web-based.
4. Microsoft Lync. Chat applications (instant messaging client) is used in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Server.
5. Microsoft Dynamics. Applications Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
6. Windows Intune. Apliaksi cloud service that is used to manage and secure the pc via the web so the user can use it virtually anywhere.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
1. Windows Azure. Microsoft's cloud platform used for building, hosting, and web scale application through Microsoft data centers.
2. Microsoft SQL Azure. Cloud based services from Microsoft that offers capabilities for data-storage (such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Relational Database Service) which is part of the Azure Service Platform.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
1. Windows System Center. Is a set of server products aimed specifically at helping IT administrators to manage the company's network of Windows Server and desktop client systems.
2. Windows Server Hyper-V. Is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems.
Azure has three components:
1. Windows Azure
2. SQL Azure
3. App Fabric
For more details, I will write the next article.
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