The working definition of cloud computing described by NIST is "a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing ...

Cloud computing is a relatively new business model in the computing world. According to the official NIST definition, "cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand ...

According to NIST, this capability is an essential characteristic of cloud computing. Resource pooling is the ability of a cloud to serve multiple customers using a multi-tenant model with ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) definition of cloud computing is considered by many to be the final word on cloud. "Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous ...

a model that's more efficient, more flexible and cheaper. But cloud computing, argues the National Institute of Science and Technology's (NIST) cloud computing lead Peter Mell, can also be ...

Release 1.0 (NIST Special Publication 500-293) is designed to support the secure and effective adoption of the cloud computing model by federal agencies to reduce costs and improve services.

It marks the first set of principles for managing cloud security, NIST officials said ... "Public cloud computing and the other deployment models are a viable choice for many applications and ...

NIST's model is a very good starting point and end confusion over the very definition of cloud computing, which can help organizations kick start their cloud strategy. From this angle, I think the ...

The newly published draft, the "NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture," is a hefty supplement to that document. It outlines a comprehensive security model for cloud computing at the ...

In the document, NIST contributors define cloud computing characteristics, issues associated with its deployment, and models of deployment, including: Private cloud Community cloud Public cloud Hybrid ...

After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing ... lists three "service models" (software, platform ...