Cloud Computing 

  When you’re undertaking a new business or some other institution you need a system that will enable you to manage and share any kind of information or data easily. However, you are tired of sharing, storing a bigger data and saving all of your documents in hardware, in a computer. Then your right solution is cloud computing.   

   What does it mean?

    Cloud computing is a term, used to describe a large system of computers which are connected to each other through a real-time communication and  provides  an opportunity to run a program in different computers at the same time.

    Now, let’s see what cloud computing can offer us.

    Owing to cloud computing we can create one document and have multiple users in it, thus promoting real-time communication and collaboration between the learners, for  instance like in Wikis or Google Drive. Secondly, one of the priorities of cloud computing is that you don’t have to install  new programs and can have an access your data whenever and wherever you want to without carrying memory card with you everywhere. What do we do then? We simply log into different softwares and start using them. Therefore, it is quite economical in terms of the hardware and software. Cloud computing is scalable and reliable, because it allows us to store everything securely online (in the cloud.) Another advantage of cloud computing is its cost-effectiveness. To make it clearer, let’s view this point from the educational perspective. You want to share your data with all of your students, but in order to keep it all you need a bigger server .This type of servers will cost you a lot, to make it precise more than you can afford and therefore will limit the number of students who can access and use the program simultaneously. In this case cloud computing is a better alternative which will enable you to reduce that large amount of expenses and use them only in extra-cases.

    As many tech tools, cloud computing also has its disadvantages, like being too much Internet dependent. This means that when the connection of the internet is slow or breaks down all that computer connected system loses access to the internet. There also may be some privacy issues, connected with confidentiality of the data stored in the cloud. However these disadvantages do not veil our vision to see the advantages of cloud computing. It`s reliable, secure, and efficient to keep data , convenient, cost effective, economical and needs less downloading or installing and finally, provides collaboration, productivity and mobility both in terms of education and undertaking business. 

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