Abstract
The increasing popularity of Internet services such as the Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure have drawn a lot of attention to the Cloud Computing paradigm. Although the term “Cloud Computing” is new, the technology is an extension of the remarkable achievements of grid, virtualization, Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies, and the convergence of these technologies. Moreover, interest in Cloud Computing has been motivated by many factors such as the prevalence of multi-core processors and the low cost of system hardware, as well as the increasing cost of the energy needed to operate them. As a result, Cloud Computing, in just three years, has risen to the top of the IT revolutionary technologies, and has been announced as the top technology to watch in the year 2010.
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REST stands for “Representational state transfer”, a software architecture for distributed hypermedia.
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This work is supported by National 973 Key Basic Research Program under Grant No. 2007CB310900, NSFC under Grant No.60673174, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-07-0334, Information Technology Foundation of MOE and Intel under Grant MOE-INTEL-09-03NSFC, and National High-Tech R&D Plan of China under Grant 2006AA01A115.
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Jin, H., Ibrahim, S., Bell, T., Gao, W., Huang, D., Wu, S. (2010). Cloud Types and Services. In: Furht, B., Escalante, A. (eds) Handbook of Cloud Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6524-0_14
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