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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, 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, so only some of the cost savings potential of cloud computing are realized.

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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).

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing" (PDF). National Institute of Science and Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
Further reading

Further reading

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. El CDB Noves juega contra Fuensalida en Noves a las 16:30