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May 28, 2015
Which one matters – server or service?
Why are people increasingly preferring Cloud solutions to ‘home-hosted’ ones ? It’s because online solutions do not require any infrastructure. Performance troubles can easily be avoided and infrastructure maintenance is not necessary, in absence of machines.
Below are few examples of how Cloud solutions enhance user experience and usability:
- A Software as a Service (SAAS) solution provides an optimized environment for the application and its services.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers in the Cloud offer more and more ready to use applications and services without any interaction with the machine or the operating system behind, leading to more transparency.
- Amazon Web Services, through Chef, allow you to deploy and control the entire environment using scripts, without having to log into the machine at any time.
IBM Cloud gives you access to a huge marketplace of ready to use applications that are available on demand.
- Docker goes further by providing application containers, completely unattached to the operating system in which they are deployed.
However, even now, most companies host their servers in their own data center. They also like to provide a computer to each employee and make the effort to install and configure applications on each of these computers. But does it still make sense to run a heavy and buggy application locally, on the machine in front of you?
The Chrome Book (on which there is only a web browser) and state-of-the-art mobile devices show that the concept of ‘client-based’ applications is now endangered.
So, the next time you need a new software, do not ask yourself in which device you need to host the application; but rather ask which application would help you avoid buying a useless machine.
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