Technology

Hardware and Software Technology

This paper examines contemporary hardware and software trends. Cloud computing is an emerging technology offering computer applications and services that are typically delivered over the Internet on a subscription or pay-per-resource basis. The services are available from data centers that are physically located all over the world, which taken together, are referred to as the "cloud." (The Internet is frequently represented by a cloud in software and networking diagrams.) Clouds may be either public or private. Companies like IBM (Gaultier, 2011) and Microsoft promote the use of private clouds which typically consist of sets of servers run by government agencies or large companies for the exclusive use of their employees (Rosoff, 2011).

Cloud computing allows users to connect to resources running on servers that may be shared or pooled, as opposed to a single dedicated server, as is often the case using the client-server computing...
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