Page 31 - Cloud Computing (Elective – III)

Cloud because of various reasons. I will discuss some of the basic points which
are as follows:
o For any scaled enterprise, they feel the necessity of using the SAAS cloud
because of the low cost of services. We can purchase as much software as
we want of our choice and will pay according to that.
o In SAAS, we do not require any IT specialist team to work for. So during

a shortage of resources, or when application development and maintenance
become a big issue, SAAS comes into the picture.
o SAAS application knows about its software creation that includes a bunch
of experienced professionals and we can rely upon them.
o Using the SAAS cloud, everything is processed and stored on the cloud
itself that makes it easier to store hundreds and thousands of files and can
access the same from the cloud whenever we want.

Advantages of SaaS

There has been a significant paradigm shift in technology while using cloud
services. If we talk about the SAAS cloud, it also offers quite a wide variety of
advantages to make our life so much easy and worthy. We will see the added
advantages that the SAAS cloud offers us which are given below:

o Easy to afford services: SAAS cloud model offers subscription-based
services including service cost, maintenance, up-gradation cost, thus
lowering the entire cost that are present on old traditional systems. Thus
because of its affordability and wide range of features, many organizations
started using SAAS.

o Fast deployment: For using SAAS services, we need only a web browser
and internet connection. SAAS solutions omit the headache of installing
software on the system. Using a fast, stable internet connection, accessing
software will be very fast and components can be deployed instantly.

o No setup required for infrastructure: We, the users do not have to worry
about the cloud infrastructure or hardware cost. SAAS cloud vendors
handle everything. So there is no infrastructure cost as the SAAS vendor
takes up all the responsibilities of maintaining the infrastructure as well as
its configuration.

o Fast upgrades: SAAS cloud supports on-demand updates and hardware
updates when needed. The upgrades are very fast as it eliminates the

downloading of software and patches. The systems are upgraded or
downgraded as per user’s choice thus making our life so much easier.

o Data backup and security: SAAS also takes the responsibility of backing
up of data on a daily, weekly or monthly basis that can be found very
fruitful at times. SAAS solutions also initiate automatic backup
maintaining data integrity and security making the user tension free.