Cloud Computing
Chapter 3 discussed services and how Web services are used to connect services. When you place those services in a data center and connect to them over the Internet, you have the basis of cloud computing. The advent of relatively inexpensive hardware (servers and storage) along with the growing availability of high-speed Internet connections made it possible to develop large data centers that can be located most anywhere in the world. There is more, however, to cloud computing, and this chapter provides basic information about it.
This chapter also describes ways that organizations of any size can use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that takes advantage of cloud computing and why most organizations likely will, ...
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