Storage as a Service

Let’s start with a real world example to get a clear understanding about it.

Sandeep started Home delivery of pizzas on the order from Customers. He is worried about how to deliver the pizzas on time and how to manage the pizza delivery. He is also concerned about hiring the drivers and keeping the bikes running. But the below scenario makes him worried.

He is a pizza delivery person and not a mechanic - delivery is a distraction. With his limited budget, maintaining the deliveries costs a lot.  His business suffers when he can't keep up the deliveries as he has promised to give 20% of deduction on total amount of the bill, whenever the delivery is late. It is difficult for him to estimate about how many bikes are required based on deliveries. Then he came to know about the new kind of Delivery Company of bikes and drivers. He can use the services provided by this company, on as need basis and pay only for what he uses. Now he can depend on that company to handle the deliveries.

A few years later his business expanded to more branches and started with new problems as well. It is difficult for him to maintain all the software’s and data in local servers which costs a lot. His business is constantly running out of storage space and fixing broken servers. Then he came to know about cloud computing, which gives a solution to his problem. Instead of maintaining all the data and software’s at local machines, he can now depend on another company which provides all the features that he requires and are accessible through the Web. At the same time his data is secure, backed up at another location. “This is using Storage as a Service which is one of the delivery models of Cloud Computing”.

Cloud computing means procuring and maintaining software/hardware resources don't have to limit business. Business can grow without worry as Cloud companies have nearly unlimited storage and resources, as well as information is safe because the servers are normally backed up in multiple locations. Sandeep is happy as he is using cloud computing and he pays only for what he uses. If his business grows, then his computing costs will also go high and vice versa.