Clouds have emerged as an important computing paradigm and are quickly dominating all aspects of the IT landscape. In fact, most organizations today are considering Cloud services as part of their IT roadmap, as users or providers or both.
Clouds are characterized by on-demand access to different levels of computing utilities, an abstraction of unlimited resources, and a usage-based payment model where users essentially “rent” virtual resources (or capabilities) and pay for what they use. Underlying these cloud services are, typically, consolidated and virtualized data centers that provide virtual machine (VM) containers hosting applications from large numbers of distributed users.
Clouds and the notion of computing as a service provides ...
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