Cloud computing is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. – networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction ”.
LakshLuther has long realized the benefits that cloud solutions hold for our current and future customers. Many of our client’s current Information Technology (IT) environments are characterized by low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, environments which are difficult to manage, and long procurement lead times. These inefficiencies negatively impact our clients’ ability to serve their citizens, shareholders and customers.
LakshLuther works with your organization to assess your current application and technology needs and create recommendations and plans to address these inefficiencies and improving service delivery. Our recommended cloud computing solutions will significantly help you to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints.
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) The capability allows you to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from your devices through a thin client interface such as a web browser (e g, web-based email). Your organization does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user-specific application configuration settings.
Cloud Development Platform as a Service (PaaS) The capability gives your organization the ability to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure your home-grown or acquired applications created using programming languages and tools supported by the cloud development platform provider. Your organization does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed applications and possibly application hosting environment configurations.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) This capability lets your organization provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where you are able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. Your organization does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networking components (e g, host firewalls). By leveraging infrastructure and economies of scale, cloud computing presents a compelling business model for your organization to measure and pay for only the IT resources you consume, and quickly increase or decrease your usage to match requirements and budget constraints
