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Cloud computing is the provision and delivery of computing resources as services over the Internet. The cloud computing business model also is a revolutionary change from what it had been as the service delivery and charge follows a utility model where customers are required to pay only for what is accessed and the duration of usage. Since the introduction of cloud computing to the market, service...
According to the United Nations, almost 50 percent of world population and more than 70 percent of that of developing countries are living in rural areas. Majority of this population live in poverty especially in North and sub Saharan Africa. Rural population face unique problems compared to their urban counterparts in terms of access to technologies, infrastructure, markets and social services. Experts...
Cloud computing has been the new paradigm in distributed systems where users can access computing resources and pay only for usage similar to other utilities like electricity, water, gas and telephony. Service Level Agreements signed at the beginning between the clients and service providers stipulate conditions of the services including the QoS requirements. Trust can be used to quantify the QoS...
Cloud computing has been considered as the 5th utility after electricity, water, gas and telephony. When the cloud computing matures, there will be multiple vendors offering different services at different Quality of Services and at different prices. This would necessitate new tools and mechanisms for analyzing the performance of the system for matching the offerings with requirements. In this paper...
Cloud computing has been considered the new computing paradigm that would make the computing a utility. With the widespread acceptance of cloud computing, computing resources including computational power, storage, development platform and applications will be available as services. Hitherto computing resources were considered capital items and customers used to pay for these resources as for any...
Cloud computing has been considered as the 5th utility as computing resources including computing power, storage, development platform and applications will be available as services and consumers will pay only for what consumed. This is in contrast to the current practice of outright purchase or leasing of computing resources. When the cloud computing becomes popular, there will be multiple vendor...
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