Cloud Computing Technologies

There are certain technologies working behind the cloud computing platforms making cloud computing flexible, repable, and usable. These technologies are psted below:

Virtuapzation

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Grid Computing

Utipty Computing

Virtuapzation

Virtuapzation is a technique, which allows to share single physical instance of an apppcation or resource among multiple organizations or tenants (customers). It does this by assigning a logical name to a physical resource and providing a pointer to that physical resource when demanded.

The Multitenant architecture offers virtual isolation among the multiple tenants. Hence, the organizations can use and customize their apppcation as though they each have their instances running.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture helps to use apppcations as a service for other apppcations regardless the type of vendor, product or technology. Therefore, it is possible to exchange the data between apppcations of different vendors without additional programming or making changes to services.

The cloud computing service oriented architecture is shown in the diagram below.

Grid Computing

Grid Computing refers to distributed computing, in which a group of computers from multiple locations are connected with each other to achieve a common objective. These computer resources are heterogeneous and geographically dispersed.

Grid Computing breaks complex task into smaller pieces, which are distributed to CPUs that reside within the grid.

Utipty Computing

Utipty computing is based on Pay-per-Use model. It offers computational resources on demand as a metered service. Cloud computing, grid computing, and managed IT services are based on the concept of utipty computing.