期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences
电子版ISSN：2079-8407
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：10
页码：1352-1357
出版社：ARPN Publishers
摘要：The significant advances in Information and Communications Technology over the last half century led to an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, and telephony). This computing utility, like all other four existing utilities, will provide the basic level of computing service which essential to meet the day-to-day needs of the general community. Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increases innovation and lowers the cost, while increasing business agility. Cloud computing on the other hand is an ability to rent a server or thousands of servers to run geophysical modelling application on the most powerful systems available anywhere. Cloud computing allows individuals, teams and organizations to streamline procurement processes and eliminate the need to duplicate certain computer administrative skills related to setup, configuration and support. An effort has been made to analyse the existing cloud computing utilities which paves a path to newer expansions
