Cloud computing - IAAS.
Cloud computing what is it. It is a service of various types. Traditionally you have accessed a web server for your needs. There are actually many ways you can use "The Cloud" as a service (AAS). One that is becoming more prevalent is Infrastructure as a service (IAAS). Wikipedia defines it as: "In the most basic cloud-service model, providers of IaaS offer computers - physical or (more often) virtual machines - and other resources. (A hypervisor , such as Xen or KVM , runs the virtual machines as guests.) Pools of hypervisors within the cloud operational support-system can support large numbers of virtual machines and the ability to scale services up and down according to customers' varying requirements. IaaS clouds often offer additional resources such as images in a virtual-machine image-library, raw (block) and file-based storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks (VLANs), and software bundles. IaaS-cloud prov...