Abstract
Cloud Computing has recently emerged as a compelling paradigm for managing and delivering services over the internet. It is rapidly changing the landscape of information technology, and ultimately turning the long-held promise of utility computing into a reality. With such speedy progressing and emerging, it becomes crucial to understand all aspects about this technology. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview on the Cloud’s anatomy, definition, characteristic, affects, architecture, and core technology. It clearly classifies the Cloud’s deployment and service models, providing a full description of the Cloud services vendors. The chapter also addresses the customer-related aspects such as the Service Level Agreement, service cost, and security issues. Finally, it covers detailed comparisons between the Cloud Computing paradigm and other existing ones in addition to its significant challenges. By that, the chapter provides a complete overview on the Cloud Computing and paves the way for further research in this area.
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A Denial of Service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.
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VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.
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Xen is a Hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
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A virtual private network (VPN) is a private computer network that interconnects remote (and often geographically separate) networks through primarily public communication infrastructures such as the Internet.
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WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a Web service.
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SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks.
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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a platform-independent, Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based registry by which businesses worldwide can list themselves on the Internet, and a mechanism to register and locate web service applications.
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CSS is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language; most commonly to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML.
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Shawish, A., Salama, M. (2014). Cloud Computing: Paradigms and Technologies. In: Xhafa, F., Bessis, N. (eds) Inter-cooperative Collective Intelligence: Techniques and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35016-0_2
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