06-11-2010, 04:06 PM
Objective
To provide a general overview of cloud computing including:
•What are some of the issues we should consider?
•Why should this be important to us?
• Cloud computing is a way of computing, via the Internet that broadly shares computer resources Instead of using software or storage on a local PC.
Definition
– The standard cloud computing model
• The SP makes resources, such as applications and storage,available to the general public over the Internet
– Free or offered on a pay-per-use model
• Examples of public clouds
– Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), IBM's Blue Cloud, Sun Cloud, Google AppEngine and Windows Azure plat form