We discussed in the earlier chapters that in a distributed system, there are two parts: client and server. Traditionally, corporations have managed their back-end servers on their own at their physical premise. However, there is a trend to consolidate these resources and services elsewhere (the cloud) on a network. These services can be used by the client systems as needed, and the resources can be remotely shared and optimized. ...
7. Cloud Computing
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