A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD PLATFORMS

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A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD PLATFORMS AN ENTERPRISE-ORIENTED VIEW DAVID CHAPPELL AUGUST 2008 SPONSORED BY MICROSOFT CORPORATION COPYRIGHT 2008 CHAPPELL & ASSOCIATES 2 CONTENTS Defining Terms: What is a CLOUD platform ? ........................................ ........................................ ........... 3 CLOUD PLATFORMS in Context: Three Kinds of CLOUD Services ........................................ ............................ 3 A General Model for Application PLATFORMS ........................................ ........................................ ............ 4 From On-Premises PLATFORMS to CLOUD PLATFORMS .

4 Software as a service (SaaS): A SaaS application runs entirely in the cloud (that is, on servers at an Internet-accessible service provider). The on-premises client is typically a browser or some other simple client. The most well-known example of a SaaS application today is probably

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