What is Cloud. The US NIST Cloud Model Explained

Answering the question, “What is Cloud?” can be hard. This will help.

With all the opinion-based cloud computing definitions out there, it is hard to come to an agreement about what “the Cloud” or a ‘cloud service’ is. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a clear and concise definition of what “Cloud” is that has been broadly …