ABSTRACT
Having understood the exceptional properties of cloud infrastructures (herea£er, they will be referred to as just “clouds”), most global enterprises (small, medium, and even large) are steadily moving their IT o¡erings such as business services and applications, so£ware infrastructure and platform solutions, and IT management systems to clouds. is transition facilitates a higher and deeper reach and richness in application delivery and consumability. Product vendors, having found that the cloud style is a unique proposition and phenomenon, are modifying and moving their platforms, databases, and middleware to clouds to be exposed and delivered as services.
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