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With the different businesses shifting their data from self hosting to the Cloud providers' platforms, demand for the people with Cloud skills has been high in the Job market. According to a report, t he global Cloud Computing market size is expected to grow from USD 371.4 billion in 2020 to USD 832.1 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.5% In one of our previous blog , we discussed about various Cloud technologies and their types. Although there a lot of providers in the market who provide Cloud hosting solutions for the companies, the main global competitors are - Amazon through their offering known as AWS ( Amazon Web Services ) Microsoft through their offering known as Azure . Google through their offering known as Google Cloud . As per Canalys report as of July 2020, AWS gets about 31% of market share, Azure gets a share of 20% while Google Cloud is 6%. An interesting fact that has come up for Microsoft's Azure is, due to the Cor...

In the previous article , we have talked about Cloud Computing and why it is so popular nowadays. We have also talked about how Amazon Web Services is different from Cloud Foundry . Now let’s see how PCF is related to Cloud Foundry and why it is so popular.   What is PCF? Pivotal Cloud Foundry abbreviated as PCF is a commercial cloud platform, a product built by Pivotal on top of the open source Cloud Foundry . Hence, it is Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) and can be deployed on any of the IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service ) platforms including AWS , GCP , OpenStack , VMware vSphere and others.   Why go for PCF? The advantage of using a PaaS platform is the ability for the development teams to deploy quickly the new features of the application they are working on with ease. With faster deployment, the productivity of the deployment teams will increase as now, development process will be more focused on the implementation of the features or bugs o be deli...

With high speed internet facilities cheaply available, the digital world is now accessible to almost every person. Not only large and medium scaled industries, but even the small businesses have now turned up for their own websites or e-commerce sites for selling their products to the customers directly. So demand for an agile and scalable storage is high and here comes “clouds” to the rescue.   What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing is the delivery of services such as storage, databases, servers, software or analytics to the customers over the internet. Imagine you want to run a website for your small website , now once the site is ready you need to host it in some server which will store the data of your site and is available for public to use. But in order to do so, you will need a server room that in turn will need space and proper maintenance which will in turn increase your cost to run your site. Now if someone tells you that he has that facility that you want ...