We are surrounded by devices such as the smart refrigerator, smart watch, phone, tablet, laptops, kiosks at the airport, ATMs dispensing cash to you, and many many more, with the help of which we are now able to do things that were unimaginable just a few years ago. We are so used to applications such as Instagram, Snapchat, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest that it is next to impossible to go a day without access to such applications. Today, cloud computing has introduced us to the following concepts:
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Software as a Service
Behind the scenes is the world of highly scalable distributed computing, which makes it possible to store and process Petabytes (PB) of data:
- 1 EB = 1024 PB (50 million Blu-ray movies)
- 1 PB = 1024 TB (50,000 Blu-ray movies)
- 1 TB = 1024 GB (50 Blu-ray movies...
