Being able to supply different markets at the click of a button
Rapid elasticity
Being able to supply demand in seasons, shrink or expand
On-demand
VM’s share resources for efficiency
Resource pooling
Moves network tasks such as firewalls into the cloud
IaaS
Moves the machines into the cloud, you work on apps
PaaS
Moves the apps to the cloud, such as google docs
SaaS
owned and used only by a single organization
Private cloud
privately owned, but are available for public use
Public cloud
half is private and half is public
Community cloud