Cloud Computing
& Business Impacts

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Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling
available, convenient, on-demand network access to a
NIST shared pool of configurable computing resources
(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services)
that can be rapidly provisioned and released with
minimal management effort or service provider
interaction.

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1. On-demand self-service
2. Ubiquitous network access
3. Location-independent resource pooling
4. Rapid elasticity
5. Pay per use

Storage-as-a-service
Database-as-a-service
Information-as-a-service
Process-as-a-service
Software-as-a-service
Platform-as-a-service

Integration-as-a-service
Security-as-a-service
Management/governance-as-a-
service
Testing-as-a-service
Infrastructure-as-a-service

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• Network
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• Innovative
• Expandability •
• Speed to implementation
• It’s green

• Security
• Control
• Cost
• Openness
• Compliance
• Service-level agreements

Holistic Value
Upsizing
Downsizing
Agility
Coolness

As-Is
Value
To-Be
Point

3 IEEE Paper + 3 Book