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Codaxy d.o.o. , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ekonomski fakultet, University of Banja Luka , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Adaptability, sustainability and orientation on primary activity are becoming priority characteristics of companies in modern business. In order to sustain their competiveness business does not buy and maintain software they need and rather decide to buy cloud computing services. By doing that they actually outsource which means that they delegate at least part of its business on other companies. Outsourcing has proven to be more advantageous compared to self-managed infrastructure. Typical payment model is “pay as you go” based on consumption and not as lump sum. Cloud computing providers guarantee for infrastructure and high availability. Paper reviews cloud computing technology idea as well as models in which this technology can be implemented in accordance to modern business. Customers, users of cloud computing, access mutual shared infrastructure. Between shared resources and infrastructure there is an abstraction layer which enables access to shared resources based on request. Cloud computing infrastructure services are based on virtualization technology which is additional subject of this paper. Paper also provides basic term definition of virtualization technology
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