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Types of clouds

Types of clouds

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Types of clouds

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- Let's take a look at some of the major cloud types. As defined by the technology market and NIST, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology, there are three major cloud types. Software as a service, or SaaS, is an application you rent over the open internet. Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, which is basically storage, compute, and other infrastructure services that you leverage from some local or remote resource. And finally, platform as a service, or PaaS, which is application development, testing, and deployment that are available on demand. There are some large fundamental differences between the different cloud types that are important to know. SaaS replaces traditional enterprise application, such as Customer Relationship Management systems, or CRM, and Enterprise Resource Planning systems, or ERPs. These are basically software systems that are delivered via web browsers. Examples include salesforce.com, Microsoft 365, Google Apps, and many others. IaaS clouds…

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