Chapter 8, Problem 8.50RQ

Explanation of Solution

Cloud computing:

• When the remote computers hosts data, software or both using the internet service to provide availability and scalability.
  • Availability refers to the resources that can be made accessible to the requestor of the resource at any time or from any location.
  • The resource can be made added or reduced whenever required.
• The data centers can be rented by the customer and those customer pay for the resources they utilize.
• Some of the service that cloud computing could offer includes:
  • “SaaS” stands for “Software as a Service”.
  • “PaaS” stands for “Platform as a Service”.
  • “IaaS” stands for “Infrastructure as a Service”.

Major technology that enables cloud computing:

• The major technology that enables cloud computing is “virtualization”.
• When a hardware and software are used in simulating other hardware resources is called as virtualization...