Cloud Computing As Hosted Services
In marketing, cloud computing is mostly used to sell hosted services in the sense of Application Service Provisioning that run client server software on a remote location. Such services are given popular acronyms like 'SaaS' (Software as a Service), 'PaaS' (Platform as a Service). End users access cloud-based applications through a web browser or a light-weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and user's data are stored on servers at a remote location.
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