The Case for Cloud Computing
- 21 March 2009
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IT Professional
- Vol. 11 (2), 23-27
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mitp.2009.40
Abstract
To understand clouds and cloud computing, we must first understand the two different types of clouds. The author distinguishes between clouds that provide on-demand computing instances and those that provide on-demand computing capacity. Cloud computing doesn't yet have a standard definition, but a good working description of it is to say that clouds, or clusters of distributed computers, provide on-demand resources and services over a network, usually the Internet, with the scale and reliability of a data center.Keywords
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