
186 Essentials of Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing is different from virtualization by means of type of
service, service delivery, elasticity, etc. (see Section 7.5).
• IaaS uses the processor, memory, storage, and network virtualiza-
tion to provide the infrastructure services (see Section 7.5.1).
• PaaS virtualizes the development platform and provides it as a ser-
vice to the developers (see Section 7.5.2).
• SaaS allows the multiple end users to share the single instance of
centrally hosted software (see Section 7.5.3).
Review Questions
1. What is virtualization? List its benets and drawbacks.
2. Explain how virtualizationchanges the ...