Fueling Cloud for Business

The idea of Cloud Computing dawns upon the virtual world as the next-generation shift that puts Internet and Computing together in a single module.

The innovative technology is definitely going to transform the way the world runs business. In near future, Cloud will move to the center of our exchange and remain at the core of worldwide transactions. It is cost-effective as a venture to outsource infrastructure, especially at a time when a deluge of information demands complex handling and analyses. Taking into consideration the ground realities of the inadequacy of the existing solitary IT infrastructure to deal properly with an avalanche of instantaneous data, the Cloud Computing appears both as a challenge and a boon. It's the signal and herald of great change in the digital world and the inauguration of a new phase in the engineering.

A remote server, storing the content, with unparalleled processing power and amazing strength of software, sorts them out, analyses and delivers the results home in seconds. That way, it promotes client efficiency by controlling and limiting the workload, or making the work-flow much easier, and thereby, helps companies to risk no business opportunities. So it's sort of teaming up of providers and clients, working together in an advanced and collaborative set-up. However, the practical problems related to integrating cloud services to existing culture and the multitude of security questions associated with it, are yet to clarified or defined.

Cloud Computing has tremendous prospects in e-commerce, academic and scientific research, healthcare scene, etc. Realizing this hidden potential, Microsoft has made huge investments in its development and expansion. By next year, 90% of the software giant's developers will be focusing on cloud-based or cloud-inspired projects. Though it's an early stage for cloud computing, Microsoft hopes that in a decade about 50% of its income will be Cloud-generated. Already over a billion people and 20 million businesses use MS cloud services. Windows Azure and SQL Azure are designed as a massive platform for corporate business.