Pharma Up in the Clouds

Cloud computing has become a standard in many industries today. Globally, with complexity increasing in business models, collaboration and the seamless integration in both macro and micro level is turning out to be a key to gain competitive advantage. Cloud computing is an internet based computing where virtually shared servers provide tools and other resources which are hosted to customers on a pay-as-you-use basis. Cloud computing is categorized into three segments - application, storage and connectivity where each segment serves different purpose. This technology facilitates even more efficient computing to customers and businesses by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.