Instead of building its own infrastructure, a company can lease computing capacities, services and memory from a specialized service provider. Editing or translation processes are transferred there. But what seems like a good idea at first is fraught with many obstacles from a legal perspective.
Cloud computing has long since become more than a buzzword and is a permanent companion in everyday life. Nevertheless, the outline of the concept appears fuzzy. Moreover, its usage generates a vague feeling of unease and not just since the NSA affair. The advantages of cloud computing are therefore exploited rather guardedly, especially by organizations.
Definition of cloud computing
Cloud computing includes IT services that are not provided by an organization’s internal IT or its own organizational unit but by a cloud service provider over the Internet.
IT services of this kind have existed for long. There was talk of “software on demand” even at the beginning of the 21st century. For example, the organization SalesForce, a CRM software provider and one of the most well known cloud companies, was formed in the year 1999. Transistor supported mainframe computers were already ...
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