CLOUD´S DEFINITION

1. Cloud's definition

2. What is
the cloud?

3. “A model that allows ubiquitous, adapted and on-
demand network access to a shared set of
configurable computing resources that can be
provisioned and released quickly with minimal
management effort or interaction with the service
provider”

4. It is a set of hardware and software, storage,
services and interfaces that facilitate the
entry of information as a service

5. A cloud system and its consumers used the model
client/server in which consumers send messages through
the network to the server computers, which run the work
specified in response to received messages.
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6. The cloud has a set of hardware resources that it
administers to maximize the services offered, minimizing
its costs