The Classification of Clouds The scientific study of clouds began in 1803 when Luke Howard‚ a British pharmacist and amateur meteorologist‚ introduced the first system for classifying clouds. Although many other procedures for cloud classification have been devised over the years‚ Howard’s system is so simple and effective that it is still in use today. It is based on the shape‚ distribution‚ and altitude of clouds. He identified ten different categories‚ but they are all variations of three
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CUMULUX WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING? What does it mean to Enterprises? | Ranjith Ramakrishnan CUMULUX: Cloud Computing Discovery Series What is Cloud Computing? What does it mean to Enterprises? Table of Contents What is Cloud Computing?.............................................................................................. 1 What technologies constitute cloud computing? ............................................................ 2 Who are the key Cloud Platform Providers? .
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Introduction to Cloud Computing architecture White Paper 1st Edition‚ June 2009 Abstract Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed‚ increase innovation‚ and lower costs‚ all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that allows it to support every facet‚ including the server‚ storage‚ network‚ and virtualization technology that drives cloud computing environments to the software that runs in virtual
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Cloud Computing CIS 500 August 28‚ 2012 Introduction The world is turning to cloud computing to manage data. Businesses are at the forefront of this new trend with companies such as Google‚ Amazon‚ Microsoft‚ and others leading the way by providing these services. What exactly is cloud computing? According to Turban & Volonino (2011)‚ cloud computing is Internet- based computing in which shared resources (such as hard drives for storage) and software apps are provided to computers and
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Cloud Computing Abstract This paper explains the basic concept of cloud computing‚ its key characteristics and process of evolution. The various layers such as platforms‚ applications‚ infrastructures and clients which utilize the services of cloud computing; deployment models comprising of public cloud‚ private cloud and hybrid cloud; architecture involved in the delivery of the cloud computing and sustainability‚ private‚ legal and security issues‚ compliance
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The Ethics and Security of Cloud Computing T he shift from desktop- and server-based to traditional‚ on-premises solutions. In a law firm software to software as a service (SaaS) context‚ the use of cloud computing raises ethics or “cloud computing” is one of the most issues around storing confidential client data on a significant transitions in computing to system the attorney may not own or otherwise control. occur in the last 20 years. While the The discourse
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What business benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve? Cloud computing offers plenty of benefits as well as solving plenty of business problems; • Cloud computing is probably the most cost efficient method to use‚ maintain and upgrade. Traditional desktop software costs companies a lot in terms of finance. –Solve the problem of high acquisition and maintenance costs. • Storing information in the cloud gives you almost unlimited storage capacity. Solves the problem
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Abstract– Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However‚ there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud is. On the other hand‚ Cloud Computing is not a completely new concept; it has intricate connection to the relatively new but thirteen-year established Grid Computing paradigm‚ and other relevant technologies such as utility computing‚ cluster computing‚ and distributed systems in general. This
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CLOUD COMPUTING RESEARCH WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING 1. Definition There are many definitions of cloud computing due to its fast development and vast number of research papers associated with it. A definition from the NIST Working Definition of Cloud Computing published by the U.S.Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology is “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous‚ convenient‚ on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.‚ networks
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These days "cloud computing" is the buzzword used to describe the direction in which information network infrastructure seems to be leaning towards. The authors reasoned that cloud computing sprouted from grid computing‚ distributed computing‚ and parallel computing‚ which resonated with the works of Foster‚ Zhao‚ Raicu‚ & Lu‚ 2008 [1]. And like many‚ they found it a challenge to provide an encompassing definition for cloud computing. Foster et al. defined cloud computing as‚ “A large-scale distributed
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