Cloud computing essentials

Cloud computing is a solution that provides Computing as a Service via a public accessible portal and offers computing resources on demand, such as desktop-to-data centers and hybrid Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The most essential characteristics of every cloud product are pay-per-use, elastic resources, self-service, and so on.

Cloud computing services are classified into three major groups:

• IaaS
• PaaS
• SaaS

The following diagram illustrates a conceptual view of these services:

Cloud computing as a service more than a product—in other words, shared resources, software, and data—and is provided to end-user devices as a service over a network. The following diagram illustrates traditional computing components as services:

Let's get started by understanding each service. We'll begin with IaaS. It has the ability to deliver computing resources, such as a VDI, DaaS, VMs, to cloud consumers. Other essential computing systems can be delivered to consumers...