On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 10:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently published > an official definition², and while "government-committee definition" > may light up some alarms, this is actually straightforward and > fuctional. Once you get past the preamble, there's really only two > pages to it. > > I like this definition because while it's still broad, it focuses on > essential characteristics which distinguish cloud computing from datacenter > virtualization in general and from "it's on the Internet!" Yeah, the NIST definition is fairly well accepted. > If I haven't lost you already, I encourage you to read the definition. > Really, it's short. But if you're hanging on by an attention-span thread, > the essentials are: > > - On demand self-service. > - Broad network access. > - Resource pooling. > - Rapid elasticity. > - Measured service. That's a good summary. I often say "on-demand, self-sevice, pay-as-you-go and the illusion of infinite capacity". Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
