Cloud Computing

1. Different kinds

1.1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

1.2. Platform as a service (PaaS)

1.3. Software as a service (SaaS)

1.4. Storage as a service (STaaS)

1.5. Security as a service (SECaaS)

1.6. Data as a service (DaaS)

1.7. Test environment as a service (TEaaS)

1.8. Desktop as a service (DaaS)

1.9. API as a service (APIaaS)

2. Why?

2.1. Sell your own products

2.2. Sell your own services

2.3. Grow your visibility

2.4. Sell third party products

2.5. Create membership site

3. Dangers

3.1. Privacy

3.2. Compliance

3.3. Legal

3.4. Open Source

3.5. Open Standards

3.6. Security

3.7. Sustainability

3.8. Abuse

4. In Belgium

4.1. http://www.belgiumcloud.com/nl/?page_id=4208&post_id=4810

5. Characteristics

5.1. Agility

5.2. Application programming interface (API)

5.3. Cost

5.4. Device and location independence

5.5. Virtualization

5.6. Multitenancy

5.6.1. Centralization

5.6.2. Peak-load capa

5.6.3. Utilisation and efficiency

5.7. Reliability

5.8. Scalability and elasticity

5.9. Performance

5.10. Security

5.11. Performance

6. What?

6.1. use of computing resources that are delivered as a service over a network

6.2. name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams

6.3. entrusts remote services with a user's data, software and computation

6.4. relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale similar to a utility

7. Sources

7.1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Issues