Introduction
In this article we will share to you about the basic and the fundamentals things about Cloud Technology. What Is Cloud Technology And What Benefits For Us? The world evolve rapidly from day to day. It just lime your Android version that should update regularly, in fact all of your applications downloaded from PlayStore required you to perform an update even more frequent than the operating system itself doesn’t it?
In a perspective of normal user, or a blogger have you ever wonder why Cloud Computing is emerging among the other segments of computer technologies happening out there? Simple Cloud computing technology adapted in our everyday life is the one stored in our handphone such us iCloud storage, OneDrive, Huawei Mobile Cloud, and many more. Without wasting time let’s get started.
What Is Cloud Computing
From Microsoft Azure Official website, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping you lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.
Why We Need Cloud Technology
As per previous definition of Cloud Computing there are many services offers in Cloud Computing. In this article we will only focus on the most widely use Cloud Services offers by many IT companies which is Cloud Storage.
Have you noticed that every smartphone regardless of the model and brand offers you a cloud storage? You may check your smartphone setting and search for backup or cloud storage services that they are offering to you to ease our life.
Less Dependence on Physical Memory Card
When Cloud Storage was offered by them (Huawei, Xiaomi, iCloud and etc..) one the biggest impact for us is that we are now less depended on physical memory card to keep our photos taken from mobile. It will always directly saving into cloud storage offered by them.
Only the issue is how big is the free tier cloud storage offered? To answer this question is to do more research over the official websites of every smartphone manufacturer. Basically, the way you can explore about this cloud after you login into their cloud storage app. As of now, most of them offers 5GB storage for free tier.
Why Do We Need Cloud Storage
When we informed cloud storage will make us less dependency on physical memory card, it doesn’t mean we are no longer need a physicsal memory card. In present day we are now can easily purchased up to 1 TB Memory Card for your smartphone. Either it was built in or you need to buy externally for your phone.
In some conditions that Cloud Storage benefits for us are as follows:
- Damaged External Memory Card. All the photos and documents will surely lost if there are not synced to any Cloud Storage. Hence sync to Cloud Storage reduce the risk.
- To re-allocate photos/documents from mobile to laptop/PC. All photos and documents in mobile phone can easily transferred into laptop/PC
- To re-allocate photos/documents from mobile to another new device/phone. All photos and documents in mobile phone can easily transferred into laptop/PC
- To-reallocate contact numbers/emails from current mobile to new devices/mobile. This can be done as well by utilizing cloud technology by sync-ing them to your Cloud Storage account. Hence no need to manual copy or transfer to 3rd parties before redo all contact details on new devices/phones
Is Cloud Storage Forever Free?
No. Cloud Storage is not forever free but we still can utilize the free tier of Cloud Storage offers from many companies as we are not always or forever dependance on Cloud Storage (For non heavy phone user). There are only some conditions where Cloud Storage is important to run the task easy and more efficient.
In What Condition We Should Use Pay For Cloud Storage?
In some conditions when your photos exceed the free tier limit (normally more than 5GB of Free Tier Cloud Storage). And you need to upload all those photos or documents to cloud for specific time and durations before you re-allocate those photos and documents transferred to cloud back to your physical memory card storage.
Remember he key concept for Cloud is “Pay as you go” . You will only pay for the services that you need. And stop paying after you done with the services. Simple isn’t it ?
Conclusion
As conclusion, this article What Is Cloud Technology And What Benefits For Us? We focus on the benefits of Cloud Storage among the normal user like many of us. In fact, Cloud Technology is not limited to Cloud Storage as their available services offered among cloud providers. There are many more services that can ease our daily life direct or indirectly without we notice it.
Hopefully, we will cover more about other cloud services in future article! Thanks for reading.