Top Cloud Technologies to Look for in 2021
Most of the people don’t even know that they are using cloud services every day. Where are your emails, data on social media platforms, online messages stored? They are all probably stored inside some drive’s millions of miles from you.
What is Cloud Computing?
From a personal level to the professional level, you might need extra storage or even some additional CPU’s. Cloud computing provides you with everything from GB’s to more than TB’s of storage with virtual machines working for you.
Cloud computing is;
Affordable: — Without cloud services, you will need a whole lot of CPU’s when you are using it on a business level. Rather than buying and managing all that CPU’s, you could purchase cheap cloud services. Even on a personal level, virtual storage is more affordable than physical repositories.
Scalable: — Cloud computing provides scalability, for instance, you are running a site on physical storage, and it becomes full, now your service is temporarily down. If you are using cloud services, your data is automatically scaled up and down according to need.
Automated: — Cloud computing provides a variety of automatic functions like scalability discussed above. It also automatically secures your data, for instance, automated encryption.
Manageable: — Cloud computing is effortless, rather than a whole lot of people working to manage your application on many computers; you could use AI to manage it virtually.
Types of Cloud Services and Models
Cloud Computing Models
Public Cloud: — It is a public cloud service provided to all businesses around the world. Public cloud service providers are responsible for the total maintenance of your data or application; this includes scalability and automated security. But not all public cloud services are top-notch secure.
Private Cloud: — It is a personal cloud service done in some houses on a smaller level. It provides a high-security level, but the data is only accessible by some clients, and it also requires IT professionals for management.
Hybrid Cloud: — It uses both public and private cloud models for deployment. However, the connection between the two could be difficult to maintain but once done; it gives you both models’ benefit.
Cloud Computing Service Models
SaaS: — Software as a service, in this type users use portals or applications to use cloud computing services. These services could be paid for or are even available for free. Examples of google services like basic Cloud backing up service.
PaaS: — Platform as a service, in this type of users, use cloud services to develop and maintain software.
IaaS: — Infrastructure as services, these services provide you with whole virtual machines with OS, networks, storage, and automated services. Examples of IaaS would be GKE, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
Top Cloud Technologies for 2021
SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS are three major categories in which cloud computing can be defined. There are some other cloud-related terms that are entirely used in 2021. Following are the top cloud tech to must-see in 2021 if you are interested in the Cloud.
Note; Below technologies are not arranged according to order as each tech has its vital importance.
Serverless
Back in the old days, people had to write code and deploy it by using their hardware. Serverless computing allows users to concentrate on the code part while they take care of the rest. This does not mean that there is no physical hardware, but it is on the cloud companies side. This reduced a lot of cost ratio as you;
- Don’t have to buy hardware.
- You save electricity cost’s
- Less of an IT team is required.
- Due to these and other benefits, serverless remains top cloud technology in 2021.
Multi-cloud
Big conglomerates like Amazon, Microsoft Azure have their own cloud data storage centers to manage all the cloud services, but small companies may not have these expenses. So smaller companies use multiple cloud services by public cloud providers to run their cloud services.
Multi-cloud services are like a hybrid cloud but a little different as they combine public services with the public.
Multi-cloud services have their advantages like using multiple servers, so the other is still up if one goes down. Due to these and other advantages, multi-cloud speaks tall in 2021.
Edge Computing
One of the different cloud technology is edge computing which is a little different from cloud computing. It faster, reliable, and a thing of the modern era. In easy words in edge computing, you use your devices to do all the process work instead of relying on cloud machines many miles away.
You still use cloud services to access, store your data, but the work is done near you. Edge brings data storage, servers, and users as close as possible.
This reduces increases speed with minimal latency. It is also more manageable as your infrastructure is not a whole running on data centers far away.
Secure Access Service Edge Deployments
It is an architecture that will combine your security features (like WAN and VPN)with the Cloud’s security functions (like web gateways and zero trust networks.) SASE has increased importance as multi-cloud networking raises the trend.
It reduces complexity and cost, helps secure the data of so many trusted users, restricts the unwanted users from access, and finally improves final applications on users’ end. All these features make SASA one of the top cloud terminology in 2021.
Cloud Migrations
The migration of data from physical to cloud servers or Cloud to cloud servers is essential as the cloud trend continues to rise. Big companies like Google provides one-click data migration, but others might need some technical assistance, for instance, data might require manual encryption.
Conclusion
In 2021 cloud technology has significantly grown importance as per the COVID-19 issue.
People are working from home; hence they are using the cloud more often, for instance, from the uploading of meetings to managing applications (like migration, securing, and multi-cloud services), all use cloud tech.
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