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“A large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet” (Foster at al.)

• “A large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet” (Foster at al.)

• SalesForces, Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Backblaze…

• Everything as a service

• Infrastructure as a service
• Platform as a service
• Software as a service

• Behind the scene: some kind of a (proprietary) grid + virtualization++

Mobile communications have freed the user from the Internet plug

• Mobile communications have freed the user from the Internet plug

• 3G/4G mobile Internet is as faster as Internet-at-work and Internet-at-home

• Ubiquity, i.e., Internet-everywhere, is a reality (at least in Western countries)

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