The document provides an overview of cloud computing including: 1) A definition of cloud computing as a model for enabling on-demand access to configurable computing resources over the internet. 2) A brief history noting that the concept dates back to the 1960s but has grown rapidly in popularity. 3) Descriptions of the key types of cloud services including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) along with examples of major providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

1. Presentation prepared by: Sami Abu Shawarib Date: Sunday, November 27, 2011

13. Services Provided by Cloud Computing

18. Public Clouds Public clouds are run by third parties, and applications from different customers are likely to be mixed together on the cloud’s servers, storage systems, and networks. Public clouds are most often hosted away from customer premises, and they provide a way to reduce customer risk and cost by providing a flexible, even temporary extension to enterprise infrastructure. If a public cloud is implemented with performance, security, and data locality in mind, the existence of other applications running in the cloud should be transparent to both cloud architects and end users. Indeed, one of the benefits of public clouds is that they can be much larger than a company’s private cloud might be, offering the ability to scale up and down on demand, and shifting infrastructure risks from the enterprise to the cloud provider, if even just temporarily.

19. Private Clouds Private clouds are built for the exclusive use of one client, providing the extreme control over data, security, and quality of service. The company owns the infrastructure and has control over how applications are deployed on it. Private clouds may be deployed in an enterprise datacenter, and they also may be deployed at a colocation facility.

20. Hybrid Clouds Hybrid clouds combine both public and private cloud models. They can help to provide on-demand, externally provisioned scale. The ability to augment a private cloud with the resources of a public cloud can be used to maintain service levels in the face of rapid workload fluctuations. This is most often seen with the use of storage clouds to support Web 2.0 applications. A hybrid cloud also can be used to handle planned workload spikes. Sometimes called “surge computing,” a public cloud can be used to perform periodic tasks that can be deployed easily on a public cloud.