4 BASIC CLOUD PLATFORMS
First to mind when asked what ‘the cloud’ is, a majority respond it’s either an actual cloud, the sky, or something related to weather.
Citrix Cloud Survey Guide, August 2012
The market is coalescing around a basic set of core cloud architectures. These may be ones that are owned and run by a single organisation as an IaaS, PaaS or SaaS complete platform (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure or Salesforce.com) or based on a software-only model where the user implements on the cloud their choice of hardware platform (such as CloudStack or OpenStack). It is worth looking at the major platforms currently in use to see the differences between them and what these differences mean for those looking ...
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