Sunday, August 2, 2009

Web 2.0

Key concepts for web 2.0 is

1)interpersonal computing
ie community site ,facebook, youtube

2) Web service
3)Software as a service(Saas)


Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a concept by which we can use software as a service (Saas) as well as hardware as services ie utility services.
An Example for

Saas is salsforce.com(CRM) and

Haas is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a computing service. One allocates a set of hosts, and runs one's application on them, then, when done, de-allocates the hosts. Billing is hourly per host. Thus EC2 permits one to deploy Hadoop on a cluster without having to own and operate that cluster, but rather renting it on an hourly basis.