Community cloud
A community cloud in computing is a collaborative effort in which infrastructure is shared between several organizations from a specific community with common concerns (security, compliance, jurisdiction, etc.), whether managed internally or by a third party and hosted internally or externally. This is controlled and used by a group of organizations that have shared interests. The costs are spread over fewer users than a public cloud (but more than a private cloud), so only some of the cost savings potential of cloud computing are realized.[1]
The community cloud is provisioned for use by a group of consumers from different organizations who share the same concerns (e.g., application, security, policy, and efficiency demands).
References
[edit]- ^ "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing" (PDF). National Institute of Science and Technology. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
Further reading
[edit]Briscoe, G.; Marinos, A. Digital ecosystems in the clouds: Towards community cloud computing. IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies. pp. 103–108. arXiv:0903.0694. doi:10.1109/DEST.2009.5276725.
See also
[edit]Cloud