Following comparison might speed up, digesting ‘Cloud Computing’ concept.
Imagine, ‘Tata Motors’ has just launched a nation-wide ‘Car-Rental’ service. Assume that with that service, renting a car has become dirt cheap. And they are passing cost benefits, of their scale of operations, to consumers. Assume, it has become so cheap that people are giving second thought before buying a car.
The repercussions…?? Definitely, you will be more than happy. You are going to save money for every imaginable reason. You don’t have to buy the car. No worry of fixing accidental repairs. No more Parking Tickets. No worry of depreciation. No need to hire the driver. No need to spend money on maintenance of the car. No need to buy insurance. No worry of resale hassle, and its valuation. Pure joy of paying, by “per km”. How does it feel? No doubt. Comfortable. (Rather I’m feeling, that it is such a great idea, I should discuss it with Ratan, Anil or Mukesh) :-)
Fun apart. But if you just think aloud, ‘Cloud Computing’ might be beneficial in similar ways, in days to come. It will keep you away from the hassle of buying hardware and licenses before starting a new project. No more IT hardware / helpdesk-support personnel required. No more patch management. No more worries of hardware upgradation and license renewal with every passing year. No more depreciating assets. No more questions of what to do with the investment, once the project is over. No more worries of scaling up and out the infrastructure, after user increases. Just enjoying pure joy of ‘Pay per Transactions', while leaving all these worries to 'cloud vendor'.
Hope this comparison helps more, to understand ‘Cloud Computing’.
With these posts, I'm planning to wind-up discussing 'cloud computing' at a high level. And in next post we will try to reach more closer to this cloud.
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