Shedding light on the cloud.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- CONGER, JASON
- Source
- Accounting Today; 9/21/2009, Vol. 23 Issue 14, p29-29, 2/3p
- Subject
- CLOUD computing
DISTRIBUTED computing
WEB services
COMPUTER networks
INTERNET
- Language
- ISSN
- 10445714
The article discusses cloud computing and virtualization. Cloud computing differs from most computer environments used in the 1990s, which only allows sharing in a network infrastructure of an organization to, as it enable computer environments to run some of its portion on the Internet. Virtualization is more known due to server virtualization, which enables a single physical hardware to run multiple virtual servers. Cloud computing and virtualization is related by economies of scale and automation capabilities of virtualization.