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 (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).

References

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  1. "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing" (PDF). National Institute of Science and Technology. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  2. Briscoe, G.; Marinos, A., "Digital ecosystems in the clouds: Towards community cloud computing", Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2009. DEST '09. 3rd IEEE International Conference on, pp.103-108, 2009. doi:10.1109/DEST.2009.5276725

See also

Cloud

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