Sunday, January 29, 2012

What is Cloud Computing?

Definition 1: Cloud Computing is a form of a distributed network where resources are virtualised and scaled endlessly.

Definition 2: According to NIST(National Institute of Information and Technology), Cloud Computing is a pay per use model for enabling available, convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources(eg. networks, servers, storage, application, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with management effort or service provider interation.