On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I agree NIST is pretty well accepted - I personally use Dave Nielsen's OSSM definition as it seems more consumable: On-demand Self-Service Scalable Measurable --David _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
