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Unit 5: Cloud Computing for the Community

Web-based application: It is a software package that can be accessed through the web browser. Notes
The software and database reside on a central server rather than being installed on the desktop
system and is accessed over a network.

5.9 Review Questions

1. Explain community cloud computing.
2. Explain the communication across the community.

3. Explain the significance of community currency in the community cloud.
4. What do you understand by collaborating on group project and events?
5. Define event marketing. Explain the concept of collaborating on event marketing.
6. Elaborate on the concerns of the community cloud model.
7. Give an insight into architecture of community cloud.

8. What is the difference between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS?
9. Explain the concept of virtual communities in the cloud.
10. Write a short note on:

(a) Collaborating on budgets
(b) Collaborating on tasks
(c) Collaborating on school projects
(d) Collaborating on event management

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Web based application 2. Infrastructure as a Service

3. Software as a Service (SaaS) 4. G-Cloud
5. True 6. False
7. True 8. False
9. False 10. True

5.10 Further Readings

Books Bill Williams, 2012, The Economics of Cloud Computing, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Borko Furht & Armando Escalante, 2010, Handbook of Cloud Computing, Springer.
Kevin Jackson, 2012, OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg & Andrzej Goscinski, 2011, Cloud Computing:
Principles and Paradigms, John Wiley & Sons.
Sarna, David E. Y., 2010, Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications,
Taylor & Francis.

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