Cloud computing is defined by the International Organization for Standardization as a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on demand. It is commonly referred to simply as the cloud. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearThe cloud metaphor for virtualized services dates to 1994 (General Magic's Telescript environment); the expression cloud computing itself became widely known in 1996 via a Compaq Computer Corporation business plan. Core ConcernOn-demand network access to a scalable, elastic pool of shareable computing resources 1 Connections
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Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing
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Edge computing is defined against cloud computing, as computing pushed outside the cloud to the network's edge.
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Cloud computing is named in the article's own Approaches section as a green-computing strategy.
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Cloud computing is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources.
History section
The expression cloud computing became more widely known in 1996 when Compaq Computer Corporation drew up a business plan for future computing and the Internet.
Associated With: Distributed Computing, Similar concepts section
Client-server computing refers broadly to any distributed application that distinguishes between service providers (servers) and service requestors (clients).
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Karim Arabi...described edge computing as computing that occurs outside the cloud, at the network's edge, particularly for applications needing immediate data processing.
Green Computing (Wikipedia)
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Cloud computing may help to address two major ICT challenges related to green computing - energy usage and embodied carbon.
Service-Oriented Architecture (Wikipedia)
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SOA can be seen as part of the continuum which ranges from the older concept of distributed computing and modular programming, through SOA, and on to practices of mashups, SaaS, and cloud computing (which some see as the offspring of SOA).
Grid Computing (Wikipedia)
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In 2007 the term cloud computing came into popularity, which is conceptually similar to the canonical Foster definition of grid computing (in terms of computing resources being consumed as electricity is from the power grid) and earlier utility computing.
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