Cloud computing behind the firewall
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– If "grid computing" is about running job-based tasks in a MPP model (e.g. HPC)…
– If "utility computing" is a business model for providing computing on an as-needed, bill-for-what-you-use basis…
– If "cloud computing" is a market model describing services provided over the Internet…
– If "virtualization" describes providing software layers in the execution stack…
Then, what do we call the systems/infrastructure model where resources are pooled together, and used for a variety of workloads.
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