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offering for a particular short-term project offsets the effort required to
set-up the same on the on-premise data center. Because of their large-
scale operations, it can be reasoned that large enterprises may obtain the
same economies of scale provided by cloud offerings; however the cloud
offering may be spread across heterogeneous customers, whereas for a
large enterprise, the sharing is across the different divisions and depart-
ments of the enterprise.

References

Because of the significant amount of activity on cloud computing,
this chapter contains a list of references.
“About Application Service Provider” from Wikipedia, http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_service_provider
“About Cloud Computing” from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Cloud_computing
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About Grid Computing from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Grid_computing
“About Internet Service Provider” from Wikipedia, http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider
Amazon Web Services, http://aws.amazon.com/

“Cloud Computing Brought to You with the Power of Joyent
Accelerator,” http://www.joyent.com/

“Get Off My Cloud: Private Cloud Computing Takes Shape,”
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Why-Private-Cloud-
Computing-Is-Beginning-to-Get-Traction/
Google Apps for Business, http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/
business/index.html
Google and the Wisdom of Clouds, “A Lofty New Strategy Aims to
Put Incredible Computing Power in the Hands of Many,” http://www.
businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064048925836.htm

“IBM Launches Cloud Services Initiative,” http://www-03.ibm.com/
press/us/en/pressrelease/25341.wss