On demand access to pool of configurable computing resources such as: Networks,

Services, Applications, Storage, Servers.

Q: The kind of computing resources one needs.
1. What is on demand access.
The value proposition of cloud computing is that it allows computer users to
conveniently rent access to computer applications, software deployment,
deployment environments, computing infrastructure such as data storage and
processing.
Q: Do we have just access to data storage and processing only.
It saves or yields a cost effective solution to those consumer organizations that
might not have the capital to purchase large enterprise software solutions or set up
large computing hardware and software
infrastructure.
2. Does having things on rent saves money?
3. The companies who set clouds, do they invest a lot of money in purchasing
enterprise softwares? Do different people use the same software, say do we
have dedicated CRM for each user? How much does it takes to set a cloud
environment?
The value proposition is also compelling for software and hardware vendors which
can now sell relatively expensive products to more budget conscious customers
4. What are the products and services that will created by cloud?
Q: Is cloud just about shared resources? Just a Distributed computing?
Q: What is a Data Center?
Q: What do we mean by Software as a service?
While the concepts of cloud computing are not new, what is new, however, is that
faster
data communications capability, faster and more reliable computing power, denser
and
cheaper storage, and new programming paradigms have enabled comprehensive
computational resource-sharing.
Q: Why storage has become cheaper? Why processing power has improved?
Q: Is cloud about computational resource sharing?
Cloud Computing is a concept of computational resource sharing
Q: We do have servers in office, we too are sharing computational power? What
makes cloud different?

A: In cloud, first , you dont have to buy severs, softwares.

a) On demand self service: At any time the user/consumer can have access to
computing abilities such as server time and network storage.
b) Broad network access:
c) Resource pooling: Consumer generally doesnt have knowledge of which
exact resources are being provided, but may know datacenter, CPUs used
etc.
We have 3 different service models:
a) Software as a Service: Use the providers applications running on a cloud
infrastructure.
The applications are accessible from various client devices through a thin
client interface such as a Web browser or a program interface.
The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure
such as network,
servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application
capabilities
Web Based Email and Salesforce.
b) Platform as a Service: Deploy Consumer Created or Acquired applications
onto the cloud infrastructure using programming languages and tools
provided by the provider.
The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure
such as network,
servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control over the deployed
applications
Q: Why the word service is used? What we mean by not having access to
operating systems?
c) Infrastructure as a service: Access Processing, Storage and Networks; doesnt
control the underlying cloud infrastructure. (Amazon Web services)
Private Cloud: Used by a single organization
Hybrid:
Public:
Community:
A cloud infrastructure is the collection of hardware and software.
Physical Layer: Hardware and Abstraction is a software layer.
Cloud is not just one server, it is a network accessible computing resources
that cloud consumers can access over a network.
Q) Lot of servers are hosted on webs, can we say that it is a cloud?
(Cloud provides you storage, processing, networks capabilities)

Q) When I am accessing resources over a network, can it result into network

congestion?
In general terms, a cloud system and its consumers employ the client-server model,
which means that clients, whether human users or software programs, send
messages over a network to server computers, which then perform work in
response to the messages received.
Cloud computing resources are a grid of computer system storage and applications.
(It is not a single server)
High Availability, Performance should be there. Resource management.
Accessing non customized software solution: Web Browser. (SaaS)
Storing data through an off-site Internet-enabled provider is a form of Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS).
If I am just storing data, how is it IaaS