CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND DYNAMICS OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The cloud is made up of millions of computers— big ones and small ones—connected together through physical wires or satellite systems that converge in vast data storage centers, themselves containing tens of thousands of “servers,” each one with millions of chips, which provide memory and processor power. Businesses store data on it; anything that requires lots of memory and number-crunching uses it.

 Cloud computing brings significant benefits to business and the economy in general, and the speed of its adoption is critical to creating new businesses and improving the efficiency of existing ones. Cloud computing is seen as the next generation technology. It is a web technology that provides users with quality services, including data and software, on remote servers. Cloud computing is similar to data outsourcing in that an external provider provides data storage services to the client. At the same time, clients get a good result, without high costs for equipment and programming for information storage. Cloud computing eliminates the need to have a complete software and hardware infrastructure to meet customer and application requirements. This type of technology can be considered as full or partial outsourcing of hardware and software resources. Access to cloud applications requires a fast Internet connection and a standard Internet browser. Cloud technology offers scalable, on-demand access to a shared pool of resources hosted in a data center at the provider's site. This paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing, deployment models and service models, cloud computing techniques, and virtualization. A study of the global market for providing services in the field of cloud technologies was conducted. The largest providers of cloud services have been identified, the total market share of which reaches 80%. As a result of the marketing research, it was determined that the main providers of cloud services are American companies and Chinese companies.

As a result of the sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, most major cloud service providers have stopped selling products to Russian customers, limited services, foregone revenue and impeded Russia's access to advanced technologies. This, in turn, led to a slowdown in the growth and gradual degradation of cloud computing technologies.