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Though this is a cliché but I could not resist myself asking this question from all the entrepreneurs out there. The question is, if you need milk, what would you do? The intelligent businessman would certainly visit a shop or dairy and buy it whereas the not-so-intelligent types would try to buy a cow. Tell me then, how logical does it sound that to fulfill your needs of software or hardware, you start buying them? Instead, why not you use cloud hosting services and enjoy all the benefits without worrying a bit about the maintenance, upgrades and security. The cloud services are part of cloud computing technology where clients can use software, hardware or IT infrastructure without actually buying them and installing them. One very basic yet simple example of cloud computing is Yahoo mail and Gmail. Almost every second person in this world is using their services of mail accounts over Internet without any server or software installation. Google can be said as one of the biggest promoters of cloud services in the world. Thanks to tech giants like them, the computing resources are much more aligned and streamlined. The computing solutions have become more efficient and cost-effective. The cloud services can be categorized in three parts which are IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service). Cloud computing is a very young and misunderstood technology. It was not long ago when a survey stated that 41 percent of higher tier of IT professionals were totally uninformed about cloud computing and two-thirds of finance experts were flummoxed with the concept of cloud computing. Though, with the latest findings it is known that companies are very keen to adopt the Cloud hosting services up to some extent to begin with. No wonder, that a September 2009 report says that many companies have been successful to register 18 percent and 16 percent reduction rates in data IT costs and data center costs respectively. Until now, though, SaaS has been the most successful facet of cloud computing. Many companies have evaded license fees, upgrade fees and other maintenance costs of application.
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