Zeitschrift für Computertechnik und Informationstechnologie

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a type of Internet based computing where different server’s storage and applications in an organization are delivered through internet. Cloud Computing helps in sharing the computational applications rather than having local servers and personal devices.

The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g. hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g. business process as a service).

The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain.