Cloud Computing

We define Cloud computing as the paradigm of using commodity digital resources to perform computations - e.g. to run a software application, a function, or any form of software-driven computation.

This paradigm is different from traditional computing paradigms in which the server and equipment is dedicated or at least known to the user or the software application. In Cloud computing, the digital resources can come from anywhere (as they are commodities) - e.g. CPUs can be located in one server, and storage can be located in a different server in a different data center. In this paradigm it is neither possible nor desirable to know the physical server or location, as it would break the commodity principle of the resource.