Cloud Computing: Today’s Four Favorite Flavors, Explained

Cloud Computing: Today’s Four Favorite Flavors, Explained
Cloud computing is famous for being a metaphor instead of a technology, but that metaphor is increasingly hard for non-techies to understand. Many variations of cloud have emerged that have little to do with the initial vision that sparked interest– a public cloud with burst-up capability on demand.

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There is no single model for how best to mix all the various cloud service permutations, but a few consistent models have emerged:

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