Cloud computing paradigm

Cloud computing Architecture

What is not cloud computing

 Idea of providing a centralized computing service dates back to the

1960s, when computing services were provided over a network using

mainframe time-sharing technology
In 1966, Canadian engineer Douglass Parkhill published his book The

Challenge of the Computer Utility computing as a public utility with a

centralized computing facility to which many remote users connect over
networks.

 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.

 Cloud computing is the practice of using a network of remote servers

hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a
local server or a personal computer.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous network access to

a shared pool of configurable computing resources.

 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.

 Cloud computing can be defined as a new style of computing in which

dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a

services over the Internet.

 Cloud computing consists of both technological and business

components
Cloud computing assumes that every software application or system

component becomes a service or part of a service.

 Cloud computing architecture consists of three layers

Infrastructure
Platform
Applications

 At the top of the layer applications are provided as a service to the end

users.
Second layer is platform layer which is responsible for dealing with

Operating system
The bottom layer is infrastructure layer which provides the basic

building block on the top of which services are to be provisioned.

 Despite what some hardware and software vendors are pushing, cloud is

not about locking you into a single, proprietary, all-in-one solution

Some people believe cloud is just a way of accessing the application

over the internet.

Cloud is new way of delivering, consuming and adopting IT services

with far more agility, efficiency and cost-effectiveness than traditional

IT approaches rather than legacy apps and systems.

 Many IT teams believe by virtualizing the datacenter they will create a

private cloud.
Server virtualization can be an important ingredient in a cloud, it is not a

must component.
Some of the leading cloud organizations (i.e. google) have implemented

massive cloud deployments (google cloud) without server virtualization

 Cloud is not lock-in. Its about openness and open source for choice and

flexibility.
Cloud is not top-down. Its being driven from the bottom up by

innovative and agile users.

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