Saturday, September 3, 2011

Cloud Characteristics

The cloud offers numerous capabilities and benefits that meet business and computing challenges across a range of small and medium size businesses. Though, all clouds share the following:

Key Characteristics

  • Pooled computing resources

  • Agile provisioning of resources

  • Rapid allocation of resources  


  • Major Layers
  • Software-as-a-Service

  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service

  • Platform-as-a-Service


  • Deployment Models
  • Public cloud

  • Private cloud

  • Hybrid cloud  


  • Emerging Channel Ecosystems
  • Cloud Builder

  • Cloud Provider

  • Cloud Reseller