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Computer Security Team Proposes Cloud Computing Definition
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A working definition for cloud computing has been released by a team of computer security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The working definition of cloud computing described by NIST is "a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal manag...
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