● At a basic level, cloud computing is simply a means of delivering IT resources as(71) Almost all IT resources can be delivered as a cloud service: applications, compute power, storage capacity, networking, programming tools, even communication services
Cloud computing began as large-scale Internet service providers such as Google, Amazon,and others built out their infrastructure. An architecture emerged: massively scaled, (73)distributed system resources, abstracted as virtual IT servic
Both clouds and grids are built to scale horizontally very efficiently. Both are built to withstand failures of(75)elements or nodes. Both are charged on a per-use basis. But while grids typically process batch jobs, with a defined start and end point, cl