Cloud computing defined: Characteristics & service levels
An excerpt from Edwin Schouten's new book, IBM SmartCloud Essentials.
Cloud computing defined: Characteristics & service levels
The following is an excerpt from Edwin Schouten’s new book, IBM SmartCloud Essentials, from Packt Publishing. Click here to purchase the eBook or print version. To get a common understanding on cloud computing, let’s start with the basics: the essential characteristics and service and deployment models. For this, we will use one of the standardization […]
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