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 :
Internet; Internet; cloud computing; data center; distributed computer cluster; on-demand resource; on-demand service; Cloud computing; Costs; Data security; Distributed computing; File systems; Grid computing; Pricing; Resource management; Web and internet services; Writing; IT Professional; cloud computing; on-demand computing capacity; on-demand computing instances; utility computing;
