Features of Cloud Hosting

Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources over the internet. Keeping data on your own hard drive or updating applications for your needs you use a service over the Internet at another location to store your information or use its applications. This may give rise to certain privacy implications. 

1. On-demand capabilities:  A business will secure cloud-hosting services through a cloud host provider which could be your usual software dealer. You have access to your services and you have the power to change cloud services through an online control panel or directly with the dealer. You can add or delete users and change storage networks and software as needed. You are billed with a monthly subscription or a pay for what you use scene. Conditions of subscriptions and payments will vary with each software provider.
2. Broad network access:  Your team can access business management solutions using their laptops, smartphones, office computers and tablets.  They can use these devices wherever they are located with a simple online access point. Such mobility is particularly attractive for businesses so that during business hours or on off times employees can stay on top of projects, customers and contracts whether they are  in the office or on the road.  Broad network access includes private clouds that operate within a company’s firewall, a hybrid deployment or public cloud.
3. Resource pooling:  The cloud enables your employees to enter and use data within the business management software hosted in the cloud at the same time from any location and at any moment. This is an attractive feature for multiple business offices and field service or sales teams that are usually outside the office.
4. Rapid elasticity:  If anything the cloud is flexible and scalable to suit your immediate business demands. You can quickly and easily add or remove software features ,users, and other resources.
5. Measured service:  Going back to the affordable nature of the cloud you only pay for what you use. Your cloud provider and you can measure bandwidth, storage levels, processing, and the number of user accounts and you are billed suitably.  The amount of resources that you may use can be monitored and controlled from both your side and your cloud provider’s side which provides transparency.
6. Rapid elasticity: Cloud services can be rapidly and elastically provisioned in some cases automatically to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. The capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time, to the consumer.