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U.S. Department of Transportation
Cloud Computing
§"Model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on‐demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction" (Source: National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
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Source: http://infreemation.net/cloud-Computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem
§Value to
DCM: For RDE, increased
flexibility, reduced costs, improved scalability, location independence
§Challenges: Security, potential data transfer
bottlenecks, data consistency