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Cloud Computing

The document discusses cloud computing as an emerging computing paradigm where data and services reside in massively scalable data centers and can be accessed over the internet from any connected device. It notes cloud computing provides flexibility, scalability, and efficiency while driving business innovation through collaboration and lowering IT barriers. Examples of cloud workloads include Web 2.0 apps, data analysis, and resource-intensive tasks.

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Cloud Computing

The document discusses cloud computing as an emerging computing paradigm where data and services reside in massively scalable data centers and can be accessed over the internet from any connected device. It notes cloud computing provides flexibility, scalability, and efficiency while driving business innovation through collaboration and lowering IT barriers. Examples of cloud workloads include Web 2.0 apps, data analysis, and resource-intensive tasks.

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What is cloud computing?

• An encompassing word that denotes


several technologies used together to
provide computer functionality over a
network instead of a standalone machine.
Definition
s

• An emerging computing paradigm where


data and services reside in massively
scalable data centers and can be
universally accessed from any connected
devices over the internet.
An emerging computing model

Businesses,
from startups
to enterprises

Web 2.0-
4+ billion phones by enabled PCs,
2010 [Source: Nokia] TVs, etc.
How the cloud drives innovation?
Leverage Cloud’s powerful combination of Web 2.0
collaboration platform and dynamic, secure computing
environment to drive business transformations.

Virtualized Cloud
Innovation Factory Incubation
Environment
Expand sources of Speed time to market Lower barriers
innovation with a for new offerings by to IT by
network of partners, exploiting leveraging
customers, collaboration Cloud to
researchers, and technology to co- provide
academia create and gather incubation
Characteristics

Virtual

Flexible

Scalable

Effecient
Benefits
Examples of cloud computing
workload
• Web 2.0 applications
• Provide rich user experience including real-time global
collaboration
• Enable rapid software development
• Software to scan voluminous Wikipedia edits to identify spam
• Organize global news articles by geographic location
• Data-intensive workloads based on scalable architectures, such
as Google’s MapReduce framework
• Financial modeling, real-time speech translation, Web
search
• Next generation rich media, such as virtual worlds,
streaming videos, Web conferencing, etc.

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