CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is Web-based processing, whereby distributed assets, programs, and data are supplied to computers and other apparatus (such as smart phones) on demand over the Internet. (Krissi, 2008)

Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the prevalent adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from buyers, who no longer have required for know-how in, or command over, the expertise infrastructure "in the cloud" that carries them. The period "cloud" is utilized as a metaphor for the Internet, founded on the cloud drawing utilized in the past to comprise the ...