Condos and Clouds.

The article describes the infrastructure of cloud computing by comparing it to the constraints and services of living in a condominium, or condo. Topics include usage and application patterns in the creation of Platform as a Service (PaaS), the development of cloud-based applications in the implemen...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 50 - 60
Autor principal: Helland, Pat
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2013
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Sumario:The article describes the infrastructure of cloud computing by comparing it to the constraints and services of living in a condominium, or condo. Topics include usage and application patterns in the creation of Platform as a Service (PaaS), the development of cloud-based applications in the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS), and utility computing of web applications for cloud users. The differences between public and private clouds is examined, with information on the costs of operating data centers for cloud storage.