Google Cloud Platform
and Modern Business
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he world is experiencing the 4th
industrial revolution. Technological advancements are changing the way we
communicate and collaborate with each other. Everyday new technologies are
being introduced and that change the
world a little bit. The world is moving forward at an incredible pace.
Technological progress is allowing us to replace the traditional ways of
running business with modern and advanced ways and techniques. These new ways
and techniques are transforming businesses overnight, increasing the efficiency
of the employees and of course revolutionizing revenue growth. This may seem a
little far-fetched but that is the truth. This is the modern magic of the technology
and Google Cloud Platform is one of those modern technological marvels.
Google Cloud
Platform:
Before we move further we need to
understand what cloud computing actually is. Cloud computing is a system or
technique that allows us to use the computer and computing resources of a third
party provider virtually (remotely through the internet). Various tech
companies provide cloud computing services. But among them Google Cloud
Platform provides the best cloud computing services with more then 100 google
cloud products.
Google Cloud
Platform
(GCP) offers more than 100 cloud products worldwide. But among them the most
popular cloud product is the Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, App
Engine and Cloud Functions.
All the
products are just brilliantly made to perform specific tasks.
Google cloud platform is a blessing for the
modern businesses. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has everything a high-tech or
non-tech business can ever ask for. Most business firms use Google cloud platform
(GCP) for many purposes. Among them three purposes are very common. Most of the
businesses use GCP for three specific purposes.
Purpose 01: For reducing or completely
decommissioning their existing IT infrastructure.
Purpose 02: For developing IT applications on the
cloud base,
Purpose 03: For maintaining higher level data
security.
Purpose 01- Google Compute Engine: Google compute engine gives a firm the authority to
use as much computers as they need to run their business without buying those
computers. That means the firm can fulfill their increasing computing needs without buying them. It is
like renting computers and paying the rent only. This facility has allowed
modern businesses to completely decommission their existing IT infrastructure
or to reduce it to a certain level. This Compute engine allows the IT experts
of a company to focus on their IT products rather than worrying about the
infrastructure of the company. Google Compute Engine has enabled the modern
business to take giant leap by freeing them from the barrier of physical IT
infrastructures.
Purpose 02- Google Kubernetes Engine: This GCP
product is mainly used by tech companies worldwide. This product is very
popular among the companies that develops softwares of various kinds. By using
this product, the companies can develop a wide variety of application with full
support for stateful, serverless, and application accelerators that google
manages for them. The companies can build the application on the Google
Kubernetes engine and run it and test it under the infrastructure and security
that Google manages for them. Google Kubernetes Engine lets the company to
develop their software applications efficiently and securely and gives the
company full administrative power over the platform.
Purpose 03 – Virtual Private Cloud: Not every business firm shares the
security concern equally. Some companies are there that needs to maintain more
security than the others. For example, a credit card company needs to maintain
more security then any company because the company holds all the confidential
data of their customer’s credit cards. So these types of companies use Google
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to maintain higher level of security of their data.
That’s why this cloud product is equally popular in the marketplace. Google
Virtual Private Cloud allows the company to keep their data so secured that
even google doesn’t have the access to those data. So google gives the company
or business firm total administrative power of their data. Google Virtual Cloud
stores data in a very impressive manner. There are several layers that forms
the security of those data.
Sudipta Barua
Session: 2018-19
Department of
Banking and Insurance
