Monday, February 22, 2010

What Defines a Cloud

Note; The most widely accepted definition of clouds is the American National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, which states that cloud computing is made up of:

  • Five characteristics :
    On-demand self services, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured services
  • Three delivery models :
    Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure- as- a- Service (IaaS)
  • Four deployment models :
    Private cloud, community cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud