Cloud Computing

A quick primer

Companies are now leveraging Cloud?technologies in Nigeria as a key enabler to navigate their digital transformation journey, and the COVID pandemic has further accelerated cloud adoption. Bluechip Technologies has been assisting and guiding its customers across Africa through its cloud journey.

?Cloud computing is a model for providing and sourcing information technology services on a “pay-per-use” basis through web-based tools and applications. Cloud services are “elastic”—highly configurable, adaptable, and scalable, and generally require less up-front investment and ongoing operational funding than traditional IT models of capital investment. Clouds generally take one—or a combination—of four deployment models: private, public, hybrid, and community.

?Private clouds are dedicated to a single company for private use. They can be built within a company’s premises—or located off-premise and owned and provided by an external third party—to deliver virtualized application, infrastructure, and communications services for internal business users. It gives you complete control over data and security to meet specific regulatory and other compliance requirements?like NDPR, Central Bank Regulation, local GAAP, etc.

?Public clouds are accessible to the public over a network and are fully owned and provided by external third parties. The largest cloud service providers with data centers that enable massive scaling are called hyperscalers. The big four hyperscalers are; Microsoft (Azure),?Amazon (Amazon Web Services),?Google (Google Cloud), and Alibaba (Alicloud).

?Hybrid clouds blend the benefits of public and private clouds, by enabling a company to retain confidential information in a private cloud, while providing access to the wider choice of cloud computing services available in public clouds.

Community clouds are collaborative resources shared between a limited number of selected organizations with common requirements and interests—perhaps in the same industry or geographical region—with the costs spread across the users. Community clouds can be hosted internally or by external third parties as a managed service.

?All these four deployment models of cloud computing can provide computing “on demand” at one or more of four levels. We will now delve into the Cloud Service models and to give a brief analogy between the different service models (see pictorial illustration on next page), we can take the example of Pizza ordering. SaaS is like ordering Pizza at home; in PaaS you visit the restaurant and eat there, while in IaaS, you make Pizza yourself using bread and sauces.

? At the infrastructure level, companies use IaaS offerings to source raw computing resources, processing power, network bandwidth, and storage on an on-demand basis while the company takes care of the operating systems, applications, and data.

?? At the platform level, PaaS provides infrastructure elements such as database, middleware, messaging, security, development tools, and a presentation layer that are used to develop custom applications. It provides companies with an environment that supports the rapid evolution of the software development lifecycle where there is a need for continuous change.

?? At the application level, SaaS software application is delivered to the end-user encompassing any application and associated data which are centrally hosted on the cloud and accessed via web browsers, supporting device independence and anytime, anywhere access. Some ERP companies, such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, have achieved widespread cloud take-up across many industries.

?? At the business process level, cloud computing-based solutions—known as Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) offer a web-enabled, externally provisioned service for managing business processes. These solutions differ from application clouds in that they provide end-to-end process support, covering not just software but also people process such as contact centers.

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About Bluechip Cloud

Bluechip Technologies is uniquely positioned to help organizations use the cloud for competitive advantage within a complex digital marketplace especially during this global pandemic ravaging the world. With our cloud services cutting across cloud advisory, cloud adoption strategy, implementation to migration, and cloud brokerage, we help clients plan for, integrate, and manage in a hybrid world where cloud and legacy systems co-exist. We combine those insights with our industry knowledge, delivery experience, skilled resources and diverse ecosystem to help you drive your digital transformation agenda, reimagine and transform complex environments into innovative digital businesses.

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