Cloud computing enables convenient, on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network. It allows for rapid development and release of services with minimal management or provider interaction. Cloud computing is now the expected approach for IT and impacts modern businesses, serving as the foundation for trends like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and digital business. Standard cloud reference models provide order to the diverse cloud landscape by describing key concepts, sharing understanding, and guiding interoperability and standards.
Cloud computing enables convenient, on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network. It allows for rapid development and release of services with minimal management or provider interaction. Cloud computing is now the expected approach for IT and impacts modern businesses, serving as the foundation for trends like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and digital business. Standard cloud reference models provide order to the diverse cloud landscape by describing key concepts, sharing understanding, and guiding interoperability and standards.
Cloud computing enables convenient, on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network. It allows for rapid development and release of services with minimal management or provider interaction. Cloud computing is now the expected approach for IT and impacts modern businesses, serving as the foundation for trends like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and digital business. Standard cloud reference models provide order to the diverse cloud landscape by describing key concepts, sharing understanding, and guiding interoperability and standards.
Cloud computing enables convenient, on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network. It allows for rapid development and release of services with minimal management or provider interaction. Cloud computing is now the expected approach for IT and impacts modern businesses, serving as the foundation for trends like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and digital business. Standard cloud reference models provide order to the diverse cloud landscape by describing key concepts, sharing understanding, and guiding interoperability and standards.
to a shared pool of computing resources. It allows rapid development and release of your services with minimal management effort or any other service provider interaction. Cloud computing continues to evolve from a market disruptor to the expected approach for IT. It now impacts every aspect of modern businesses. It also serves as the foundation for other disruptive trends, including the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI) and the digital business. This figure appearing below illustrates the benefits of cloud computing: As you can see, cloud computing enables businesses to focus on their core strengths and delegate non-strategic IT functions to an external partner. This allows companies to improve scalability, agility, increase innovation and reduce costs.
Cloud Reference Models
With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, the definitions of various cloud computing architectures have broadened. The cloud landscape has many vendors and multiple definitions of offerings, making it very difficult to evaluate their services. With such diversity in their implementation, understanding how the cloud works and interacts with other technologies can be a little confusing. To achieve the potential of cloud computing, there is a need to have a standard cloud reference model for the software architects, software engineers, security experts and businesses, since it provides a fundamental reference point for the development of cloud computing. The Cloud Reference Model brings order to this cloud landscape. This figure appearing here also illustrates various cloud providers and their technologies within the available cloud service models in the market. The Model Overview Standards bodies define the cloud reference models, and then vendors map their services to these models. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a U.S. government body, defines the standard protocol for cloud computing providers. Vendors then develop their cloud platform while following the defined standard guidelines and starting their operational engagement with enterprise business systems. NIST took an early leadership role in standardizing the definitions around cloud computing. This happened as cloud technology was making inroads into the U.S. federal government. Leading cloud service providers map their services to the NIST reference model. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon are leading companies in the market, which provide cloud service that comply with the NIST reference model. The reference model: Describes the domain and key concepts Provides a shared vision, understanding, and taxonomy Reduces complexity to enhance the development of new products Provides a guide for interoperability and standards Provides a model for functions and services of cloud implementations Defines best practices