3. INTRODUCTION What Is Cloud Computing?? Some analysts and vendors define: updated version of utility computing,basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others define: anything you consume outside the firewallis "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing. MORE…
6. or licensing new software. Thus, extends IT's existing capabilities. CONTINUE to TYPES OF CLOUD COMPUTING
7. TYPES OF CLOUD COMPUTING SaaS Utility computing Web services in the cloud Platform as a service MSP (Manage Service Providers) Service commerce platforms Internet integration
8. SaaS delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. no upfront investment in servers or software licensing costs are low compared to conventional hosting.
9. UTILITY COMPUTING Accept storage offers and virtual servers that IT can access on demand. Liquid Computing's LiquidQ enabling IT to stitch together memory, I/O, storage, and computational capacity as a virtualized resource pool available over the network.
10. WEB SERVICES IN THE CLOUD providers offer APIs that enable developers to exploit functionality over the Internet They range from providers offering discrete business services to the full range of APIs as offered by conventional credit card processing services.
11. PLATFORM AS A SERVICE delivers development environments as a service. Owned applications built that run on the provider's infrastructure and are delivered to your users via the Internet from the provider's servers Prime examples the new Google App Engine
12. MANAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS (MSP) an application exposed to IT rather than to end-users; virus scanning service for e-mail Managed security services delivered by SecureWorks, IBM, and Verizon,cloud-based anti-spam services as Postini, recently acquired by Google.
13. SERVICE COMMERCE PLATFORMS A hybrid of SaaS and MSP; offers a service hub that users interact with. most common in trading environments; think of it as an automated service bureau. Well-known examples include Rearden Commerce and Ariba.
14. INTERNET INTEGRATION The integration of cloud-based services OpSource, which mainly concerns itself with serving SaaS providers, recently introduced the OpSourceServices Bus, which employs in-the cloud integration technology from a little startupcalled Boomi
15. CONCLUSION In general, cloud computing customers do not own the physical infrastructure, instead avoiding capital expenditure by renting usage from a third-party provider. They consume resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use.
16. REFERENCE This article “What Cloud Computing Really Means” is taken from the website and was edited: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031 - was originally published in InfoWorld.com -
