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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 |
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− | == Cloud Benefits == | + | == Cloud Computing Service Models == |
| + | The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines 3 cloud service models: |
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− | == Service Model ==
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− | 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 === |
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| + | 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 == |