What is the benefit of a cloud computing infrastructure? ○ Companies have full control over the data that is hosted. ○ Companies
need to pay for only the resources used. ○ Companies can host all applications internally on their own servers. ○ Companies do not need to worry about the security of hosted data.
Most valuable reason for a company to switch to cloud computing is that they only have to pay for the resources they use, and since everything is being host by another company there is no need for internal host of application on private servers and cloud computing has top of the line security since they hire the best IT admin(s)
General purpose computers are designed to be able to perform variety of tasks when loaded with appropriate programs, while special purpose computers are designed to accomplish a single task.