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Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing refers to a service-oriented computing methodology in which computational, networking, and storage capabilities, and software services are virtualized and contracted for via Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), through well-defined interfaces that are exercised via a network connection.

Historical Background

Cloud computing has its origins in two separate but related technological developments that emerged in the commercial sector during the 1990s. The first is very-large-scale e-commerce as evinced by “Internet-scale” companies such as Google, eBay, and Yahoo! These companies fielded proprietary web-facing infrastructure designed to support millions of simultaneous, anonymized users via the common carrier Internet.

The second development, pioneered by the company Salesforce.com, was “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) – the credentialed, and for-fee access to proprietary software via programmatic web-facing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Until that time,...

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Chandra Krintz

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, 93106--5110, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Amr El Abbadi

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Krintz, C. (2017). Cloud Computing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_2206-2

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