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Elasticity in the cloud

Elasticity in the cloud

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Tags: Distributed systems organizing principles, File systems management, Management, Operating systems, System management, Theory, Web applications, Web services

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Pointers

Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Cloud Computing Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Info World article: 'What cloud computing reall means'

The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals...

Jargon

IaaS

infrastructure-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

PaaS

platform-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

SaaS
software-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing