Do prije nekoliko godina nije bilo mnogo pružatelja usluga u oblaku^{(cloud service providers)} . Nedavni trend kretanja poduzeća prema hibridnim oblacima doveo je do novih sudionika. Sastavio sam popis deset najboljih pružatelja usluga u oblaku. Imajte na umu da ih nisam posložio nikakvim redoslijedom poput "od dobrog prema lošem" ili "od lošeg prema dobrom". Popis je samo deset najkorištenijih i najkorisnijih imena na tom području. Javite nam kako biste ih ocijenili.

Usluge računalstva u oblaku

1] Microsoftove usluge u oblaku^{(1] Microsoft Cloud Services)}

Postoje mnoge usluge u oblaku pod imenom Microsoft , uključujući OneDrive, Office 365  i Azure . OneDrive i Office web aplikacije su dobre. Kao softver za pohranu i sinkronizaciju, OneDrive je među najprihvaćenijim uslugama za pohranu u oblaku. Azurno^(Azure) je dobro, ali ljudi imaju svoje preferencije. Sudeći po onome što sam pročitao na webu i drugdje, Azure ima još dug put prije nego što pridobije više kupaca. Koje su promjene koje Microsoft može napraviti u Azureu^(Azure) kako bi ga više prodavao i prodavao diljem planeta? Od sada sam čuo da dodaju više podatkovnih centara u Azureza brže operacije.

2] IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud ima dvije glavne ponude:

1. Infrastruktura kao usluga ( IaaS ) i
2. Softver u oblaku^{(Cloud Software)} ( Softver^(Software) kao usluga – SaaS^{(Service – SaaS)} )

Također nudi Platformu^(Platform) kao uslugu i naziva je BPaaS ( Poslovne platforme^{(Business Platforms)} kao usluga^(Service) ). Tvrtka pomaže ljudima da izgrade vlastite privatne oblake, kao i pojednostavljuje ove privatne oblake javnim oblacima kako bi se stvorio hibridni oblak koji organizacije (klijenti) mogu koristiti. Najbolja stvar u vezi s tim je to što ne morate trošiti puno vremena i novca na izgradnju i racionalizaciju hibrida.

Budući da su IBM -ovi inženjeri stručnjaci, oni to rade brzo i jeftinije. U svom drugom članku o hibridnim oblacima također sam spomenuo da je IBM najbolja opcija za hibridne oblake jer je njihov servis jednostavan za postavljanje i pruža vam dobru sigurnost i za vaš privatni oblak, kao i za IBM cloud proizvode.

Napomena: ^(Note:)SaaS , PaaS i IaaS ću detaljno objasniti u zasebnom članku. Za sada, SaaS je kada je softver u oblaku instaliran na vaš uređaj za usluge kao što su sigurnosna kopija i sinkronizacija itd. PaaS je mjesto gdje vam oblak nudi platformu za obavljanje stvari. Umjesto da ulažu u stvari ili ih prilagođavaju, programeri – na primjer – mogu razviti i testirati svoje proizvode na PaaS -u . Infrastruktura kao usluga je sama po sebi razumljiva. Ne morate kupovati i postavljati infrastrukturu. Vi samo koristite infrastrukturu koju pružaju različiti dobavljači oblaka, posebno IBM. I ne samo to, možete dodati ili smanjiti stvari koje su vam potrebne i platiti samo ono što koristite, što ga čini najjeftinijom opcijom za tvrtke.

3] Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

U osnovi Platforma^(Platform) kao usluga^(Service) ( PaaS ), Amazon Elastic Cloud nudi platformu za programere i studente, mjesto za razvoj njihovih aplikacija. Također im nudi mogućnost testiranja programa baš kao i VMWare . S početne stranice Amazon EC2:

“ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) je web-usluga koja pruža promjenjive veličine računalnog kapaciteta u oblaku. Dizajniran je kako bi razvojnim programerima olakšao računanje na webu.”

Govoreći o Amazonu EC2^{(Amazon EC2)} , potrebno je spomenuti kako su neki hakeri kreirali originalni račun s EC2 i koristili ga za Sony Playstation Data Breach . To, međutim, ne znači da IBM oblaci imaju slabiju sigurnost. Oni koriste SSL i drže procese šifriranima tijekom cijele vaše sesije.

4] Citrix Cloud Platform

Još jedno veliko ime u IT industriji, Citrix sada planira postati kralj. Provjerite www.cloud.com da vidite da će doći neki val. U ovom trenutku ne mogu reći zašto je rezervirala domenu i tražila ID^(IDs) -ove e-pošte , ali mislim da bi to bilo nešto što bi i pojedinci i tvrtke mogli koristiti uz svoj privatni oblak. Ali to je budućnost. Upravo sada, Citrixova^(Citrix) početna stranica kaže:

“ Citrix CloudPlatform , koji pokreće Apache CloudStack , jedino je u industriji rješenje u oblaku koje je otporno na budućnost, usmjereno na aplikacije i dokazano pouzdano i učinkovito orkestrira i tradicionalna poslovna i oblačna radna opterećenja aplikacija unutar jedinstvene platforme za upravljanje oblakom.”

Ova izjava čini da izgleda kao da je Citrix više orijentiran na hibride umjesto da svojim klijentima nudi cjelovita rješenja u javnom oblaku. Možda sam krivo protumačio. Ispravite me ako je tako.

5] Radostni oblak^{(5] Joyent Cloud)}

Joyent je odabrao Dell jer podržava vlastiti cloudware. Ako mreža poput “LinkedIn” odabere Joyent za svoj rad, možete biti sigurni da je davatelj usluga u oblaku jedan od najboljih. Na svojoj početnoj stranici Joyent ima sljedeće kako bi bilo jasno da je i ovo za hibride:

“ Hibridni oblak visokih performansi^{(High-Performance Hybrid Cloud)} za današnje zahtjevne web^{(Demanding Web)} i mobilne aplikacije”.

Uglavnom, čini se da se tvrtka udružuje s organizacijama kako bi im pomogla s privatnim i hibridnim oblacima. Posjetite^(Visit) www.joyent.com kako biste saznali više o tvrtki. Unos Wikipedije^(Wikipedia) na Joyentu^(Joyent) će vas zbuniti.

6] BlueLock usluge u oblaku^{(6] BlueLock Cloud Services)}

Tvrtka se projektira kao usluga oporavka podataka. Smislio je novu frazu koja glasi " Oporavak^(Recovery) kao usluga". Očito je da se vaši podaci, ako se učine neupotrebljivima, mogu oporaviti pomoću Bluelock Cloud Services . Ovo spada u kategoriju SaaS -a .

Tvrtka također nudi IaaS . Poduzeća mogu koristiti samo onu količinu infrastrukture koju žele i povećati ili smanjiti stavke koje se koriste na temelju zahtjeva. Među svojim brojnim uslugama nudi i rješenje u oblaku pod nazivom VMware vCloud Datacenter Service Provider . Prema web stranici, ovo se uglavnom koristi za stvaranje hibridnih^(Hybrid) oblaka s VMware alatima.

7] Verizon Cloud

Ovo bi moglo biti iznenađenje za mnoge. Verizon je u osnovi telekomunikacijska tvrtka i nudi videozapise na zahtjev itd. Pa, kupio je Terremark i spreman je za pružanje usluga u oblaku. Uključujem ga na ovaj popis jer je Verizon bio vrlo popularan dok Terremark ima dobru pozadinu u pružanju usluga u oblaku. S više od 50 podatkovnih centara diljem planeta, siguran sam da će Verizon-Terremark biti hit u bliskoj budućnosti.

Uglavnom, to bi bila Infrastruktura^{(Infrastructure)} kao usluga i u tijeku su razgovori o ponudi nekih proizvoda Oraclea^(Oracle) kao usluge u oblaku svojim klijentima. Na taj će način korisnici koristiti najnoviju verziju proizvoda jer će ih Verizon/Terremark stalno ažurirati.

8] SalesForce Cloud – Ruby platforma kao usluga^{(8] SalesForce Cloud – Ruby Platform as a Service)}

Salesforce je poznato ime i nedavno je kupio Hereku , tvrtku koja nudi Ruby platformu koja se stalno širi. Niže stope i veća fleksibilnost čine ga privlačnim poslovnim kućama. Opet^(Again) , vjerujem da bi ovo bio hibridni oblak umjesto da se ljudi u potpunosti odlučuju za Ruby – bez lokalnog oblaka. Također, Hereku je Paas ( Platforma^(Platform) kao usluga) koja omogućuje programerima da ne samo grade već i testiraju svoje programe.

9] RackSpace Cloud

Ovo je jedan od najpopularnijih davatelja usluga u oblaku koji svoju ponudu pokreću uglavnom na OpenSpace kodu. Potonji je open-source kod za programere zainteresirane za stvaranje aplikacija povezanih s oblakom. Rackspace nudi sve tri usluge: SaaS ; PaaS ; i IaaS . Sa sve više ljudi koji vjeruju Rackspaceu^(Rackspace) (uglavnom zato što je izgrađen na otvorenom izvornom kodu), oblak je spreman rasti i horizontalno i okomito.

10] Google Cloud Platforma^{(10] Google Cloud Platform)}

Iako nema puno onih koji to žele, Google Cloud Platforma^{(Google Cloud Platform)} zaslužuje spomenuti kada govorimo o popisu prvih deset pružatelja usluga u oblaku. Glavni su Google App Engine i Google Compute . Postoji i nekoliko drugih Google usluga u oblaku, kao što su Google Cloud Print i Google Drive . Logično^(Logically) je da možete kreirati aplikacije na Google App motoru i testirati ih pomoću Google Compute koji naplaćuju po minutama koje koristite uslugu. Ne mogu komentirati stanje Google Cloud Platforma^{(Google Cloud Platform)} za sada jer Googleima naviku naglo prešutjeti stvari, ali bih vam svakako želio skrenuti pozornost na Google Apps koji postaje sastavni dio većine tvrtki.

Gore navedeni su rezultati mog istraživanja o računalstvu u oblaku. Opet^(Again) vas podsjećam da lista 10 najboljih pružatelja usluga u oblaku nije rangirana nikakvim posebnim redoslijedom. Umjesto toga, sadrži samo najkorištenije i najpopularnije usluge s odgovarajućim opsegom u bliskoj budućnosti. Neki su već uspjeli doći do vrha, poput Amazona...^(Amazon…) nekolicina drugih treba malu promjenu za daljnju prilagodbu korisničkih potreba, poput Azurea...^(Azure…) a opet, drugima je potreban odgovarajući marketing kako bi educirali ljude o vrijednostima usluga u oblaku, kao što je Google Compute Engine . Uz opsežna istraživanja koja su napravljena za sastavljanje ovog popisa, želio bih vas saslušati o vašim stavovima i iskustvima o ovim ili bilo kojim drugim pružateljima usluga u oblaku. Molim^(Please)podijelite ih pomoću odjeljka za komentare u nastavku.

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Top 10 best Cloud Computing Services

Until a few years back, there were not many cloud service providers. The recent trend of businesses to move towards hybrid clouds has seen new entrants. I compiled a list of top ten cloud service providers. Note that I have not arranged them in any order like “good to bad” or “bad to good”. The list is just the ten most used and useful names in the field. Let us know how you would rate them.

Cloud Computing Services

1] Microsoft Cloud Services

There are many cloud services to the name of Microsoft, including OneDrive, Office 365 and Azure. OneDrive and Office web apps are good. As a storage and sync software, OneDrive is among the most accepted cloud storage service. Azure is good, but people have their own preferences. Going by what I read on the web and elsewhere, Azure has still a long way to go before it gains more customers. What are the changes that Microsoft can make to Azure to sell it more and to sell it across the planet? As of now, I’ve heard they are adding more datacenters to Azure for faster operations.

2] IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud has two main offerings:

1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and
2. Cloud Software (Software as a Service – SaaS)

It also offers Platform as a service and calls it BPaaS (Business Platforms as a Service). The company has been assisting people to build their own private clouds as well as streamlining these private clouds with public clouds so as to create a hybrid cloud that organizations (clients) can use. The best thing about it is that you do not have to spend much time and money to build and streamline the hybrids.

Because the IBM engineers are experts, they do it fast and they do it cheaper. In my other article about hybrid clouds too, I mentioned IBM being the best option for hybrid clouds as their service is easy to set up and gives you good security for both your private cloud as well as the IBM cloud products.

Note: I will explain SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS in a separate article in detail. For now, SaaS is when cloud software is installed on your device for services such as backup and sync, etc. PaaS is where the cloud offers you a platform for performing things. Instead of investing in things or customizing them, developers – for example – can develop and test their products on PaaS. Infrastructure as a service is self-explanatory. You do not have to buy and set up the infrastructure. You just use the Infrastructure provided by different cloud providers, especially IBM. Not only that, you can add or reduce things you need and pay only for the things you use, making it the cheapest option for businesses.

3] Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Basically Platform as a Service (PaaS), the Amazon Elastic Cloud offers a platform for developers and students, a place to develop their apps. It also offers them facilities to test the programs just like the VMWare. From Amazon EC2’s home page:

“Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.”

Talking about Amazon EC2, it is necessary to mention how some hackers created a genuine account with EC2 and used it for Sony Playstation Data Breach. That, however, does not mean that IBM clouds have weaker security. They employ SSL and keep the processes encrypted all through your session.

4] Citrix Cloud Platform

Another big name in the IT industry, Citrix is now planning to go king size. Check out www.cloud.com to see that some wave is about to come. I cannot, at this point, say why it has reserved the domain and asking for email IDs, but I think it would be something that both individuals and businesses can use in addition to their own private cloud. But that is the future. Right now, Citrix’s home page says:

“Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, is the industry’s only future-proofed, application-centric cloud solution proven to reliably and efficiently orchestrate both traditional enterprise and cloud-native application workloads within a single unified cloud management platform.”

This statement makes it look like Citrix is oriented more towards hybrids instead of offering complete public cloud solutions for their clients. I may have interpreted it wrong. Please correct me if so.

5] Joyent Cloud

Joyent was chosen by Dell for supporting its own cloudware. If a network like “LinkedIn” chooses Joyent for its operation, you can be sure that the cloud service provider is one of the best. On its homepage, Joyent has the following to make it obvious that this too, is for hybrids:

“High-Performance Hybrid Cloud for Today’s Demanding Web and Mobile Apps”.

Basically, it seems that the company teams up with organizations to help them with private clouds and hybrid clouds. Visit www.joyent.com to know more about the company. The Wikipedia entry on Joyent will confuse you.

6] BlueLock Cloud Services

The company projects itself as a data recovery service. It coined a new phrase that goes “Recovery as a Service”. It’s obvious that your data if rendered unusable, can be recovered using Bluelock Cloud Services. This comes into the category of SaaS.

The company also offers IaaS. Businesses can use just the amount of infrastructure they want and increase or reduce the items being used based upon the requirement. Among its many services, it also offers a cloud solution named VMware vCloud Datacenter Service Provider. According to the website, this is mainly used to create Hybrid clouds with VMware tools.

7] Verizon Cloud

This might come as a surprise for many. Verizon is basically a telecom company and offers on-demand videos etc. Well, it acquired Terremark and is all set to provide cloud services. I am including it on this list because Verizon has been very popular while Terremark has a good background in providing cloud services. With more than 50 data centers across the planet, I am sure Verizon-Terremark is going to be a hit in the near future.

Basically, they would be Infrastructure as a service and talks are on to offer some products of Oracle as a cloud service to their customers. That way, users will be using the latest version of the product as the Verizon/Terremark will keep them updated.

8] SalesForce Cloud – Ruby Platform as a Service

Salesforce is a known name and it recently acquired Hereku, the company that offers an ever-expanding Ruby platform. Lower rates and greater flexibility make it appealing to business houses. Again, I believe this would be a hybrid cloud instead of people opting entirely for the Ruby – without an on-premise cloud. Also, Hereku is Paas (Platform as a service) that enables developers to not only build but also test their programs.

9] RackSpace Cloud

This is one of the most popular cloud service providers that run their offerings mainly on OpenSpace code. The latter is an open-source code for developers interested in creating applications related to the cloud. Rackspace offers all three services: SaaS; PaaS; and IaaS. With more and more people trusting Rackspace (mainly because it is built on open-source code), the cloud is poised to grow both horizontally and vertically.

10] Google Cloud Platform

Though there are not many takers for this, Google Cloud Platform does deserve a mention when talking about the top ten list of cloud service providers. The main ones are Google App Engine and Google Compute. There are several other Google cloud services too, such as Google Cloud Print and Google Drive. Logically, you can create apps on Google App engine and test them using Google Compute that charge by minutes you use the service. I cannot comment on the state of Google Cloud Platform as of now because Google has a habit of shutting up things suddenly, but I would sure like to draw your attention to Google Apps that are becoming an integral part of most businesses.

The above are the results of my research about cloud computing. Again, I remind you that the list of top 10 cloud service providers is not ranked in any specific order. Rather, it just contains the top most used and popular services with a proper scope in the near future. Some have already made it to the top, like Amazon… few others need a little change to further customize user needs, like Azure… and still, others need proper marketing to educate people about the cloud services’ worth, like the Google Compute Engine. With heavy research done to compile this list, I would like to listen to you about your views and experiences about these or any other cloud service providers. Please share them using the comments section below.

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