The concept of cloud computing got a big push during the recent worldwide recession, as companies sought ways to save money, Israeli cloud consultant Eddie Resnick tells ISRAEL21c.

“Companies buy for peak needs,” he says, to ensure their capacity to operate under even the most intensive conditions. But most of the time, Resnick says, as much as 85 percent of peak capacity goes unused. By moving to the cloud, companies can save significant amounts of money using just the services and resources they need at the moment without investing in infrastructure aimed at peaks.

Cloud infrastructure – the servers where the applications and services sit – is generally provided by large data companies like Amazon and Google, which have the computing capacity to handle billions of data requests.

The applications and services on those servers, however – as well as the systems that keep the data secure – are provided by a panoply of IT, Internet and software companies. Several significant ones are Israeli.

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