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Business Improvement Using Cloud Computing in Companies in the Republic of Croatia

Information and Communication Technologies are extremely important for the successful operation in institutions and companies. Constant aspiration to reduce costs and increase efficiency results with fact that own Information and Communication Infrastructure is very expensive. It required a solution which would avoid investments into the purchase and rehabilitation of such infrastructure. According to the previously mentioned requirements there was created the autonomous remote system where the user does not need to invest in infrastructure and administration or to take the risk of losing information. A system that includes these features is called Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is an emerging new computing paradigm for delivering computing services. It provides computation, software, data access and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure. Within limits, cloud users can consume any amount of these resources without need to ensure servers or other computing equipment. Cloud Computing is built on the foundations of Grid Systems on which were added new key technologies such as SaaS (software as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service), IAAS (infrastructure as a service), virtualization and more. The authors of this article represent what is Cloud Computing and explore its features and improvements in the business. Furthermore the article shows the current status of Information and Communication Technologies in companies in the Republic of Croatia. The survey was based on several institutions and companies involved in education, manufacturing, sales, etc. Based on the research and current costs in the IT sector, there are presented possibilities of the optimization and cost savings by using Cloud Computing.

Information and Communication Technologies, Cloud computing ; Companies, Optimization, Management, Costs.

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