Chapter 5, Problem 17MLM

Explanation of Solution

Characteristics of cloud computing:

• The general characteristics of cloud computing are:
  • On-demand self-service:
    • The customer or the subscriber of the cloud, without communicating to the human from the cloud provider, can increase or decrease the computing requirements on demand.
    • The computing requirements are server, network storage, and software applications.
  • Broad network access:
    • The broad network access is an important component of cloud computing.
    • The services provided by the cloud provider must be accessible over the network from any location and any standardized platform.
  • Resource pooling:
    • Resource pooling is the ability to provide the services to multiple subscribers for their need at the same time.
    • The resources are assigned at the time of subscribers’ login and it will be changed dynamically based on their needs.
    • The subscribers are unaware of the location of resource where the reassignment is done.
    • Maintaining, upgrading, and administrating the hosts contributed to the cloud is a burden of the cloud provider.
  • Rapid elasticity:
    • This refers to the ability to provide increased computing resources in peak hours without the worry of system overload and additional hardware requirements...