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The Infrastructure of Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing refers to an internet based computing technology where shared servers provide infrastructure, software and various other resource to customers on a “pay-as-use” basis. Cloud users need not know how the resources are managed. Hence they can concentrate on the business functionality of the service rather than the underlying functionality involved in the management of the resources. These customers do not own the physical infrastructure, but rent these resources from a third-party agency. This concept is widely utilised by the industry, government and in the educational sector due to the ability to provide robust, resilient and scalable computing power. The resources are provisioned to the user based on determining the required computing resources by the customer.
Virtualisation is a powerful technology which makes modern computers versatile and powerful. This technology enables an on-demand creation of a large number of virtual machines within a physical machine and can be implemented at the server level, OS level or at the application level. Server level virtualisation is done by emulating the underlying hardware by virtualisation software. This virtualisation software is referred as a Hypervisor or a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). In OS virtualisation, the virtualisation platform runs on top of the host OS which relays and co-ordinates various resource requests from different Virtual Machines (VMs). Application Virtualisation enables applications to run on

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