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[sudhi]

Hi all,

I heard the word Cloud Computing in recent days and I found it to be a popular technology. Is it? Can anyone tell me the basics of Cloud Computing and I want to know is there any facility to host an ASP.Net application in it?


Thanks in Advance......

Bye.....

[Raghavendra]

Hi Sudhi,

Generally speaking, Cloud Computing is the new kind of web hosting technique. It is having its own benefits when compared with normal web hosting.

Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource. What goes on in the cloud manages multiple infrastructures across multiple organizations and consists of one or more frameworks overlaid on top of the infrastructures tying them together. Frameworks provide mechanisms for:

* self-healing
* self monitoring
* resource registration and discovery
* service level agreement definitions
* automatic reconfiguration

The term “cloud computing” can indeed be misused and/or over-used, since people often use it to refer to services that have simply been made available via the Internet. However, there are several legitimate differentiators between “cloud computing” and non-cloud Internet-based services. These include:

* The ability to allocate and de-allocate resources (including hardware, software, and storage) from a pool of resources on the fly, as required
* The ability to only charge customers for what they actually use
* The ability to provide customers with a high level of automated self-service so that they can turn capacity up and down as their needs change


For more info :
http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/579826
http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1728&tag=nl.e539

Thanks & Regards,
Raghavendra K.