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Status on Cloud Computing

Cloud computing spending will account for 25 percent of annual IT expenditure growth by 2012 and nearly a third of the growth the following year.

Source: cloudhypermarket.com

Cloud Computing by the Small Business Authority

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Source: thesba.com

Today’s Cloud Computing Landscape



Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic – a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider.

Source: wikibon.org/blog/

Cloud Computing: Public vs Private

There are as many meanings of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the main theme is that a Public Cloud offers IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party. In a Private Cloud, the organization policies are governed by a particular organization where workloads and data can be moved to and from internal and external data centers. Private Clouds offer an organization a single point of control for security, manageability, privacy, audit, compliance and governance.

Source: wikibon.org/blog/

The History Of Cloud Computing

The history of cloud computing is the history of business computing & the internet. In 1964 Douglas Engelbart creates the first Windows UI.