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1. Cloud computing fears hit Canadian firms' competitive edge

Concerns about security, legal compliance, keep business data grounded

Article by GILLIAN SHAW. 

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2. Microsoft gives businesses cloud computing

Microsoft Corp has launched Microsoft Office 365 in. The product is a next generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes . For more, read complete article

3. Amazon Crash Causes Instagram and Netflix to Blackout: Is Cloud Computing Ready for Prime Time?

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4. Cloud computing could produce jobs boost to Northern Ireland

More than 16,000 new jobs could be created in Northern Ireland thanks to the benefits of cloud computing.

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Types of Cloud Computing

There are three types of cloud computing:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
• Platform as a Service (PaaS), and
• Software as a Service (SaaS).

Using Infrastructure as a Service, users rent use of servers (as many as needed during the rental period) provided by one or more cloud providers. Using Platform as a Service, users rent use of servers and the system software to use in them. Using Software as a Service, users also rent application software and databases. The cloud providers manage the infrastructure and platforms on which the applications run.

Introduction

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service to a heterogeneous community of end-recipients. The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts services with a user's data, software and computation over a network.