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Google Apps; Salesforce.com
(SaaS)
Quicken Online, Zoho, Cisco
Google App Engine, Mosso,
Application Platform
Force.com, Engine Yard,
Facebook, Heroku, AWS
Server Platform3Tera, EC2, SliceHost,
GoGrid, RightScale, Linode
Storage PlatformAmazon S3, Dell, Apple, ...
Hosting – Physical data centers such as those run by IBM, HP, NaviSite,
etc.
The “no-need-to-know” in terms of
the underlying details of
infrastructure, applications interface
with the infrastructure via the APIs.
The “flexibility and elasticity” allows
these systems to scale up and down at
will
utilising the resources of all kinds
CPU, storage, server capacity, load balancing, and
databases
Cloud
The “pay areastransparent
much as usedto users
and
and applications,
needed” they
type of utility can be and
computing
the
built“always on!, anywhere
in multiple ways and any
place” type of network-based
branded products, proprietary open
computing.
source, hardware or software, or just
off-the-shelf PCs.
In general, they are built on
clusters of PC servers and off-the-
shelf components plus Open
Source software combined with
in-house applications and/or
system software.
Hypervisor
Hardware
Virtualized Stack
Performance: Para-virtualization (e.g. Xen) is very
close to raw physical performance!
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