What is GCP?
Google Cloud Platform ( GCP ), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, file storage, and YouTube. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning.
The platform includes a range of hosted services for compute, storage and application development that run on Google hardware. Google Cloud Platform services can be accessed by software developers, cloud administrators and other enterprise IT professionals over the public internet or through a dedicated network connection.
How Can We Help?
We make it our priority to ensure your transition to cloud computing, upgrading your current setup, or migrating to a new service, is completed with only the required facilities, allowing for expansion as required.
Multicloud adoption and cloud application migrations are exploding but 20%-30% of public cloud spend is wasted from a lack of control and visibility due to, unused instances, rightsizing challenges and more.
The Benefits of Cloud Computing
When looking at the tech industry at large, it’s easy to see why cloud computing has become so popular.
First and foremost, one of the biggest advantages of cloud computing is cost savings. With a traditional enterprise model, a company must invest in the hardware and software needed to run their organization. If the company anticipates rapidly growing and scaling, that could require spending millions of dollars on software and equipment that may or may not be fully used. With cloud computing, a company can pay only for what they need, when they need it.
A second, closely related, the advantage is scalability. Rather than needing to ramp up, deploy, test and troubleshoot new hardware and software, cloud computing gives companies the ability to scale almost immediately.
Mobility is another significant advantage of cloud computing. Whereas legacy software often supports one or two operating systems, cloud computing relies on web-based applications. As a result, virtually every major platform is supported. In an era when bringing your own device (BYOD), phone and tablet-based work has become more common, cloud computing provides a way to support employees and help them be most productive.
Security is a feature that is often overlooked, largely because of misconceptions about cloud computing. Many individuals erroneously believe cloud-based computing is less secure than legacy, on-premise systems. Study after study has shown, however, that cloud computing often provides a higher degree of security.
Automatic updates and disaster recovery are two more closely related benefits. Because cloud-based applications automatically update, there is no need to worry about expensive and time-consuming upgrade cycles. In addition, because everything is backed up to the cloud, cloud computing makes it far easier to recover from a disaster, compared to companies that are still housing everything locally.
What do we do for you in GCP?
Google cloud platform is made up of various services designed to meet the requirements of small to large companies.
This is an overview of the services GCP has to offer:
- Computing and hosting
- Storage
- Databases
- Networking
- Big data
- Machine learning
We can set up your server environment on Google Cloud, which gives you options for computing and hosting. You can choose to do the following:
- Work in a serverless environment.
- Use a managed application platform.
- Leverage container technologies to gain lots of flexibility.
- Build your own cloud-based infrastructure to have the most control and flexibility.
You can imagine a spectrum where, at one end, you have most of the responsibilities for resource management and, at the other end, Google has most of those responsibilities