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considered to be appropriate to fulfill this task. An Example for HAAS is Digg, a
website that promotes popular news (Lenk, Klems, Jens, Tai, & Sandholm, p. 4).
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The Cloud Ecosystem – Enterprise Cloud Computing
As described in Chapter 5.3 – From Segregation to Integration of Data, cloud
services and cloud computing may also be considered as an ecosystem, comprising
a lot of facets and “forming a complex environment, in which web-scale end-user
applications and services are developed, tested, deployed and operated” (Lenk,
Klems, Jens, Tai, & Sandholm, pp. 4-5).
Figure 18 - Cloud Ecosystem
In a business environment the cloud ecosystem of technologies are deployed either
as an Infrastructure-As-A-Service, Platform-As-A-Service, or Software-As-A-
Service in various models including: Private Clouds, Community Clouds, Public
Clouds, and Hybrid Clouds (Shroff, 2010, pp. 241-243).
Source: modified after (Bufithis, 2010)
