Cloud Computing

what is cloud computing?
Today, a growing number of businesses rely on the delivery of IT infrastructure and
applications over the Internet (or “the cloud”) to cost-effectively provide various IT
applications. Couple that with advancements in virtualization technology, expanding
bandwidth and the need to cut costs — and you can sense a fundamental shift in the
way many businesses approach IT software and hardware investments.
Intel defnes cloud computing as a computing model where services and data reside in
shared resources in scalable data centers. Any authenticated device over the Internet
can access those services and data.
The cloud has three components:
1 Cloud architecture: Services and data reside in shared, dynamically scalable resource
pools, based on virtualization technologies and/or scalable application environments.
2 Cloud service: The service delivered to enterprises over the Internet sits on cloud
architecture and scales without user intervention. Companies typically bill monthly
for service based on usage.
3 Private cloud: Cloud architecture is deployed behind an organization’s firewall
for internal use as IT-as-a-service.

Presentation Links

Click here to download Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation

For more Click here to download the pdf document from Intel

Wikipedia link Click here