Defintion of Cloud Computing?
How many definitions of Cloud Computing have you heard? It seems that everyone I speak with about Cloud has their own definition, from some storage device on a desktop to iTunes to Microsoft to AWS. While all are seemingly valid, this one is my preference. Thank you NIST.
"Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
John, now I have to figure out exactly what "ubiquitous" means!
That's a great definition thanks for posting.
The Mainframe Computing of the 70's got updated.. and is now called Cloud Computing.