WARREN – Cloud computing services offer numerous potential advantages. Customers pay for such services on a subscription or on-demand volume basis, thereby eliminating the fixed costs associated with purchasing, implementing and maintaining IT capabilities in-house.
The scalability of those services offers considerable appeal, too. At the Software as a Service (SaaS) level of cloud computing, customers may access an application via a standard Web browser and Internet connection. Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows customers to deploy their own applications within a cloud computing infrastructure, while Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers provision processing, networking components, data storage and other functions.
Those available degrees of service enable customers to quickly expand IT capabilities and capacity to accommodate business growth.
[SYSTEM-AD-LEFT]While offering such benefits, though, fundamental IT control concerns, such as data integrity, system reliability, data security and system availability remain: A customer needs to know how such concerns are addressed by a cloud service provider.
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