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Cloud Computing and Cloud Networking Q A Q1: What is Cloud Computing? A1: Cloud Computing is hosting applications and data in large centralized datacenters and accessing them from any- where on the web, including wireless and mobile devices. Typically the applications and data is distributed to make them scal- able and fault tolerant. This has been pioneered by applications such as Google Apps and S, but by now there are hundreds of services and applications that are available over the net, including platform services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud and Simple Storage Service. Q2: What are the Advantages of Cloud Computing? A2: For end users, there are five key advantages 1) Very little capital investment is required to deploy scalable cloud applications. 2) Applications and data are distributed to make them scalable and fault tolerant. 3) Applications can be accessed by any device, including wireless and mobile. 4) Removes traditional server and storage management and maintenance issues 5) Enables applications to access and share vasts amount of information For vendors, there are also five key advantages 1) The robustness of cloud platforms allows the lowest cost hardware 2) By sharing of common pool of hardware vendors gain utilization efficiencies 3) Enables new and very cost-effective business models 4) Easy to sign up customers (low upfront commitment) 5)