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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, 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. It allows consumers to access technology resources like software, storage, and computing power over the internet without direct active management. Cloud services are typically accessed via a web browser.

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, 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. It allows consumers to access technology resources like software, storage, and computing power over the internet without direct active management. Cloud services are typically accessed via a web browser.

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Cloud computing 

is Internet-based computing, whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data

to computers and other devices on demand, as with the electricity grid. Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the

widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture andutility computing. Details are abstracted from

consumers, who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that

supports them.[1]

Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on the

Internet, and it typically involves over-the-Internet provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources.[2]
[3]
 It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computingsites provided by the Internet.[4] This

frequently takes the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as

if it were a program installed locally on their own computer.[5]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a somewhat more objective and specific

definition here.[6] The term "cloud" is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past

to represent the telephone network,[7] and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as

an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents.[8] Typical cloud computing providers deliver

common business applications online that are accessed from another Web service or software like a Web browser,

while the software and data are stored on servers.

Most cloud computing infrastructures consist of services delivered through common centers and built on servers.

Clouds often appear as single points of access for consumers' computing needs. Commercial offerings are generally

expected to meet quality of service (QoS) requirements of customers, and typically include service level

agreements (SLAs).[9] The major cloud service providers include Amazon,Rackspace

Cloud, Salesforce, Skytap, Microsoft and Google.[10][11] Some of the larger IT firms that are actively involved in cloud

computing are Fujitsu, Dell,[12] Red Hat,[13] Hewlett Packard,[14] IBM,[15] VMware, and NetApp.

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