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Jan Bartel's Blog Cloud computing refers to the ability to deploy your application on infrastructure that you do not necessarily own nor manage yourself and that can be easily scaled up to handle demand and provide resiliency to failure. The hardware infrastructure can be composed of clusters of many cheap machines or it may be high-end hardware which is virtualized into many nodes. In either scenario, the cost of ownership is dramatically less than in the traditional model. Additionally, your application executes in an environment where the services it consumes can be transparently provided for you and scale along with the application. Think services like databases, messaging and servlet session clustering for example. Software as a service is an increasingly popular p... (more)