The NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling –
- ubiquitous (present, appearing, or found everywhere, omnipresent, ever-present, everywhere, universal, pervasive, worldwide, global),
- convenient,
- on-demand network access
to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (for example, networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
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