A STUDY ON CLASSIFICATIONS OF CLOUD

“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.” - Larry Ellison Cloud computing is an emerging field that is expected to change the entire information technology processes and IT market in the future. It is changing how we develop, deploy, and use the information technology and the infrastructure that it runs on. Cloud Computing can be defined as Internet-based computing in which virtually shared servers that are data centers provide software, platform, infrastructure, policies and many resources. Clouds can be classified in various types: Public, Private, Hybrid and Virtual Private. In this paper we will understand the Different Classifications of Clouds – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS – Public, Private, Community, Hybrid and also match Cloud Providers to Our Needs – Amazon, Google, Microsoft.