60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack Us...

Cloud computing can be a very nebulous term—for some it is an online application,
for others it is a virtualization system. To set the record straight, the definition put forth
by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is helpful. In its 2011
report, NIST defined cloud computing as follows:
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network
access to a shared pool of of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers,
storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with
minimal management effort