Types and Benefits of Cloud Computing to use in Agile

Agile and cloud computing is today's upcoming and widely expanding trends in businesses and mainly in software development organizations. These changes and trends are the reasons for technological advances, increased processing powers, increased security, increased reliability of the internet, high bandwidth network access, and scalable storage area network.

We have already discussed in our previous article how cloud computing can be combined with agile and briefly explained its advantages. But only knowing how useful it is for agile is not enough when you are looking towards cloud computing as an option to improve the performance of your organization along with agile. When you are deciding to include cloud computing you need to know what are its types and in what way it provides the benefits to agile and organization. So today we will see the types of cloud computing for agile and also its benefits in detail.

There are five main types of cloud computing and three types of cloud service.

Types of Cloud Computing

Private

In a private cloud, only one individual or business uses the resources and storage using the private internet which has no access to the public. As it is private it provides a high level of security. It cost more than the public.

Public

It’s a type provided by a third party delivering service over the public internet to their clients. This cloud provides handles all issues or updates that require troubleshooting. Some providers give free service while some provide a subscription system where clients can select their required storage and cloud resources.

Hybrid

It is the combination of the private and public cloud where companies can select different ones for their options considering their requirement, using the private cloud for confidential business and data while using the public cloud for marketing and sales. It provides an organization with greater flexibility in operations and infrastructure.

Multi

This organization uses multiple cloud provider services. This type is used for improving security, and to use the separate cloud for different departments, workflow, or branches. But multiple clouds and separate infrastructure for each one make it challenging to share resources.

High-Performance Computing Cloud (HPC)

It provides services to high-performing applications, computers, and devices like supercomputers. It provides enough storage and server power to run the system along with other needs.

Types of Cloud Services

Software as a Service (SaaS)

In SaaS, cloud computing server organizations use third-party services by purchasing licenses that manage their hardware, software, infrastructure, and system updates.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PaaS provides the organization an opportunity to test, debug and manage applications in the cloud environment which are generally done by third-party providers. With PaaS organization controls the application’s management and deployment. Professionals in the coding field use it to create new programs.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

IaaS is more of a customized service that allows an organization to rent and control the cloud-supporting IT infrastructure. Businesses can access IaaS services and components to their advantage.

Advantages Cloud Computing Provides to Agile

Saves Time

Using servers as per their need and even applying one server for every job saves time for the developer. It gives freedom from using physical servers and waiting for them to be available.

Provisioning Servers that Suits your Needs

The dependency on relying on IT staff to provision servers which could still makes the delay in situations is eliminated with cloud computing. As cloud computing gives provision to install the necessary platform on their own to developers.

Encourages Innovation via Investigation

Agile teams can create instances whenever the need arises and also experiment when intersecting with an interesting user story. Due to simultaneous coding and testing waiting time is skipped. Making developers stay true to the agile working of innovation through experimentation.

Boosts Continuous Integration and Delivery

With available of various automation tools for various operations, an agile team can improve continuous integration and delivery.

Instant Feedback

Quick feedback is an important point for an agile system. Along with continuous integration and delivery cloud computing also helps an agile organization to achieve instant feedback at every stage of the project.

With leading processes and delivering value agile is seen as a competitive advantage for any organization. Similarly, now cloud computing combined with agile is also seen as the added advantage which has accelerated and deepened the effectiveness of the system.

 

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