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Defining Cloud Computing and Infrastructure on Demand

Cloud computing is an emerging deployment and procurement model that facilitates real-time delivery and consumption of cloudbased IT infrastructure, networking, and application services over the Internet and/or private IP networks. Cloud computing architectures leverage virtualization, service automation and orchestration, and Multitenancy to create unified, scalable pools of hardware, software, and network resources to enable dynamic, on-demand delivery of IT and application functionality. Cloud computing business models offer end users various degrees of flexibility with regard to service consumption, pricing, and self-service provisioning and management.