Background-Research_Joel-Gaehwiler

Background Research

The cloud

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., net- works, 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)

The name cloud computing has been derived from the cloud-shaped symbol, commonly used as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. The technical definition differs a little in what we generally understand of the cloud. Today, a cloud means mostly an infrastructure deployed by a service provider, which is offering a defined service to its clients and customers. BackgroundResearch.pdf