Cloud Computing Implementation Strategy for Information Dissemination on Meteorology, Climatology, Air Quality, and Geophysics (MKKuG)

2. Cloud Computing Technology

Cloud computing technology utilizes Internet connection using a virtual server centre in order to maintain or process data and applications ^[1]. The cloud computing technology will revolutionize the way of how the systems work in organization’s information technology. It is due to the concept of cloud computing that able to significantly reduce the cost of information technology implementation by simplifying the management of IT services by working remotely. Simplifying the management of IT services is available and can be accessed from the Internet and the physical location of the servers which can be reached anywhere, not necessarily on-premise or at each data centre. Nowadays, there are several organizations that provide various types of cloud computing services and physical computing resources located in their data centres.