Wednesday, February 17, 2010

What is Cloud Computing?

What is cloud computing? definitely it is not a hype..so what is it? I like to think that it is an Idea.

As a Cloud User:
  • No worry of control of underlying IT infrastructure.
  • Cloud systems is elastics can expand and shrink as required.

As Cloud Service Provider
  • A new IT service delivery model based on consumption( more like power/water utiliities).
  • Need to provision highly scalable and virtualised IT resources.


Definition quoted from NIST website

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

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