Gmail, i think Google’s Gmail is of the most popular and widely used email service provider. Most of the people are using Gmail for email facilities, including the website owner by using gmail’s free service called “Google Apps“. Gmail is popular because of there awesome interface, banner less presentation, very less advertisements, almost no images, huge storage space, etc etc.
Have you ever imagine how the Gmail provides 7 to 8 GB of space for free ? day by day thousands and millions of people are signing up for Gmail and billions of emails are sent and received through out. so how this is managed by Google ? Whats the secret ?
Actually Google is using a concept called “Cloud computing“. Whats that ?
Cloud computing is an umbrella term used to describe the use of computing services that are hosted on a network (typically the internet) and used by PCs (or other devices) without having to specify specific servers or systems.
Source : BPC on Cloud computing
Using Cloud computing Google can easily extend there storage space and processing power over the cloud of computers so that when ever they need more they just spread there network to wide area and hence they can easily provide you huge storage without failure.
Take a look at this video, this will clear your doubts about “Cloud computing”
Now most of the email providers, video sharing sites like Youtube, document sharing sites, file sharing sites are using cloud computing to provide best and maximum facilities to there users.
Jul 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Really knowledgeable post ,Now i came to know about cloud computing best live example : google .
Keep it going ^^^^
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Jul 22, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Cloud computing, managed services software as a service (SaaS), software on demand, Software+Service, platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service have all been used to describe new ways to build, deliver, and purchase software. They are just a software business models that span from the traditional to the Internet. Google uses the same !!
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Jul 22, 2009 at 9:55 pm
This is of course not a popular topic that all webmasters know about. Most of the popular web2.0 services today use cloud computing. It becomes more advantageous when your website starts seeing great traffic which makes it difficult for a single powerful dedicated server to handle. Media temple grid service (I use) seems to work the similar way, but not sure about it.
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Nikhil Replied:
August 14, 2009 at 6:02 pm
@Pavan Kumar, so u use media temple for hyperwebenable????
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Jul 23, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I’ll find it out later….
What I was thinking was they were using RAID networks……
Still thanks for the post, it gave me another quest to find out the working of such sites in somewhat greater detail….
Let me finish my exam then I’ll find out what they are using…..
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Jul 23, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Had read about this in some tech forums a while back, but at that time, I really didn’t understand what they are blabbering
Nice content
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Jul 23, 2009 at 5:05 pm
interesing Info,
never thought How they do it,
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Jul 23, 2009 at 7:42 pm
full of knowledge abt gmail
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Jul 23, 2009 at 10:05 pm
yes !! you are right Google is using cloud computing for their and users ease . The cloud computing concept is not rare but developed by one of the Google employee . I have seen it’s video on Discovery channel
Nice post buddy
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Jul 24, 2009 at 8:37 pm
hi chetan.. well found this really knowledeable… love a way you write…but the term “cloud computing” was really a new word for me.. thans for the post.. keep it up !
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Jul 25, 2009 at 3:39 am
Cloud computing. Very informative post.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 1:14 am
Very informative post. I didn’t know about the term “Cloud Computing” but knew this method somehow. Yet, this video and article were very interesting to read! Thank you for sharing!
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Aug 14, 2009 at 10:44 am
They pay huge amount of green papers guys…they have the minds and the resources…
And cloud computing has many disadvantages too…., but the fact is a normal user generally ignores them…
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Sep 8, 2009 at 4:34 pm
This video and article were very interesting to read!
Never heard about cloud computing before, thanks for the information.
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