Demystifying the Cloud

Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer
Zone : IT in manufacturing
Published : February 2010

What is Cloud Computing? Search.com provides the following definition: “Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).”

The term ‘cloud’ is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents. However, Martin Banks, associate analyst...

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