In previous posts I have talked about ‘the cloud’, what terms such as IaaS mean, some history and where we’re going. For this post I’m going to look at some of the cloud platforms out there, and discuss issues that organisations should consider when deciding to move onto ‘the cloud’ using an ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (Iaas) offering.
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Posts Tagged ‘IaaS’
Developing Applications for the Cloud
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What is the cloud? Part Two
In my previous post in this series I described the three main categories of what can be meant by ‘the cloud’: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Today I will discuss how these concepts are not really very new at all – starting with a bit of computing history.
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