Chapter 19

Cloud and Virtualization

Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

  • What are the characteristics of clouds and cloud services?

  • What are the purpose and characteristics of virtualization?

Key Terms

This chapter uses the following key terms. You can find the definitions in the Glossary.

cloud computing

community cloud

hybrid cloud

hypervisor

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

private cloud

public cloud

Software as a Service (SaaS)

virtualization

Introduction (19.0)

In planning the future network of Marcy and Vincent’s furniture business, Bob concludes they should take advantage of cloud services and virtualization. Bob explains to Marcy and Vincent ...

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