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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Resource Pooling

Any time you can consolidate systems’ physical and time resources, you are

resource pooling. While a single server can pool the resources of a few

physical servers, imagine the power of a company like Amazon. AWS server

farms are massive, pooling resources that would normally take up millions of

diverse physical servers spread all over the world!

Measured and Metered Service

Ah, the one downside to using the public cloud: you have to write a check to

whoever is doing the work for you—and boy can these cloud providers get

creative about how to charge you! In some cases you are charged based on

the traffic that goes in and out of your Web application, and in other cases

you pay for the time that every single one of your virtualized servers is

running. Regardless of how costs are measured, this is called measured

service because of how it differs from more traditional hosting with a fixed

monthly or yearly fee. Some companies charge by the amount of processing

resources used, such as CPU usage, a metered service rate. This enables very

careful monetizing of resources used. You pay for what parts of the hardware

you use, rather than a more general fee for all the hardware of a system.

Cloud-Based Applications

The earlier discussion about SaaS hinted at one of the most vital and

compelling reasons to move to cloud-based computing: getting all the

software we need without having to install or upgrade that software

manually. For many organizations, the Microsoft Office productivity suite

forms the backbone of production throughout the organization. The

applications in the suite include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access—the

typical “office” apps. Microsoft has gradually increased the suite over various

versions to include a lot of other apps that some—but not all—organizations

rely on heavily, such as Outlook for e-mail and calendaring, Planner for

project management, OneNote for sharing project notes throughout the

organization, and many more. As a software manager for an organization,

how do you decide what apps to install for each user? Scaling that up to 50 or

100 or more users, that planning and rollout (and upgrades) ends up as a

major chore.

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