The Development of Cloud Computing in Pacific Rim

Abstract

Following footsteps of the Parallel Computing and the Grid Computing, the Cloud Computing has become the world noticed advanced computing technology. Some of the key elements that put the Cloud into the spot light are virtualization, extremely large scale, high availability, high reliability, high scalability, low cost, pay-as-you-go, ... etc. In the past few years, even though it has passed the highest visibility point in Hype Cycle of Technology, this new face of computing technology still keep its momentum and is considered as major paradigm shift of the computing technology. Even the flag of Big Data era has been raised recently, the acknowledgement of Cloud computing merits is still moving on without much holding back. To some extents, the Cloud is even considered as one of the key factors for the realization of the Big Data era. Over the years, the Cloud market has encouraged all the vendors, domestically and internationally alike, to devote themselves into the three tiers of the Cloud Computing, namely, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).