“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.” – Marc Andreessen, Board Member, Facebook
“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” – Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware
Welcome to the course on ‘Fundamentals of Cloud Computing’. Let’s watch the next video, where Siben will outline the concepts that will be covered as part of this session.
You will get a brief overview on:
Cloud computing and how it is different from traditional IT solutions
Advantages of cloud computing
Understand how an application can be broken into multiple components
Different service models such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
Different deployment models
Characteristics of cloud computing
Different cloud providers and market share of major cloud providers
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