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A traditional IT environment for hosting legacy applications that cannot be deployed to a cloud environment
A traditional IT environment for hosting legacy applications that cannot be deployed to a cloud environment
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== Cloud Benefits ==
* Cost effective: IT infrastructure is costly and labor intensive, cloud offers an opportunity to offset these costs.
* Highly flexible and scalable
* Multiuser
* High accessibility from any device anytime
== Cloud Benefits ==
== Cloud Computing Service Models ==
The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines 3 cloud service models:
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=== IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service ===
=== IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service ===
offer services such as pay-as-you-go storage, networking, and virtualization.
IaaS gives users cloud-based alternatives to on-premise infrastructure, so businesses can avoid investing in expensive on-site resources.
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=== PaaS – Platform as a Service ===
=== PaaS – Platform as a Service ===
Vendor provides hardware and software tools over the internet, and people use these tools to develop applications. PaaS users tend to be developers.
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=== SaaS – Software as a Service ===
=== SaaS – Software as a Service ===
Platforms make software available to users over the internet, usually for a monthly subscription fee.
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== GC Cloud adoption principles ==
== GC Cloud adoption principles ==
