Research Area:  Cloud Computing

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A relatively recent term, builds on decades of research in virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web and software services. It implies a service oriented architecture, reduced information technology overhead for the end-user, great flexibility, reduced total cost of ownership, on-demand services and many other things. This paper discusses the concept of cloud computing, some of the issues it tries to address, related research topics, and a cloud implementation available today.

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Author(s) Name:   Mladen A. Vouk

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DOI:  10.2498/cit.1001391

Volume Information:  Vol. 16, No. 4, 2008.

Paper Link:   https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/69202