Building and Managing a Cloud Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

What Is Cloud Computing?

The growing interest in cloud computing has led to efforts by vendors, analysts, and government agencies to try to agree on a single definition of cloud computing, as a means to provide a common ground for discussing how best to leverage this new paradigm. For purposes of this book, the term cloud computing refers to a style of computing where dynamically and massively scalable—and often virtualized—resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The services can be of any type or complexity. They can range from complete applications that are available as a service on a subscription basis, such as applications for customer relationship management (CRM), HR, billing and invoicing, document management, accounting, ...