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Aug 26
2008

Cloud Computing 101

Posted by jrajani in Web, Software

David Chappell a consultant for Microsoft and the principal of David Chappell and Associates has released a whitepaper entitled, "A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms" in which he does a great job of defining, analyzing and explaining this new computing strategy.

This paper has the following categories of discussion:

Defining Terms
Examining Cloud Platforms
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Cloud Application Services

You can read the entire whitepaper here.  This is recommended reading for experienced and new IT professionals.



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