Remember those
old days of the need to have your own computers and servers depending on what
you want to do. I have seen many programmers not getting enough resources for
practicing and enhancing their skills due to constraints related to the
infrastructure requirement.
Cloud computing
has brought a paradigm shift into this. Getting IT infrastructure has become so
easy today using the backend virtualization techniques. Sitting in your living
room, you can now order for a new server online and pay by your credit card on
a periodical rental system. You can choose flexible configuration and operating
system licensed along with it. Once your task is over, you can choose to
discard this server and stop paying further. This is not same as rental server
since you are not getting anything physical with you and you do not need a mini
Data Center to host it.
The
configurations could be flexible and enhanced on-the-fly without waiting for a
delivery cycle.
For developers,
even the development platforms and respective licenses can be obtained the same
way making it easy for them to use a platform. This is not only good for SMBs
and IT organizations, it is good for students as well.
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