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Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing a Utility

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Cloud computing strives to achieve the long-standing vision of making computing a utility, similar to electricity, telephone, and water services. This article discusses several research challenges that need to be addressed in order to realize the full potential of cloud computing and get computing closer to being a utility.

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Hefeeda, M. (2015). Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing a Utility. In: Al-Saidi, A., Fleischer, R., Maamar, Z., Rana, O. (eds) Intelligent Cloud Computing. ICC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19848-4_1

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