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  2. Community cloud - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Cloud computing - Wikipedia

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    Gartner defines a hybrid cloud service as a cloud computing service that is composed of some combination of private, public and community cloud services, from different service providers. [86] A hybrid cloud service crosses isolation and provider boundaries so that it cannot be simply put in one category of private, public, or community cloud ...

  4. Cloud computing architecture - Wikipedia

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    Cloud storage is generally deployed in the following configurations: public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, or some combination of the three also known as hybrid cloud. [4] In order to be effective, the cloud storage needs to be agile, flexible, scalable, multi-tenancy, and secure. [5]

  5. Open Commons Consortium - Wikipedia

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    Project Matsu - Project Matsu is a collaboration between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Open Commons Consortium to develop open source technology for cloud-based processing of satellite imagery to support the earth science research community as well as human assisted disaster relief.

  6. Social cloud computing - Wikipedia

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    Social cloud computing, also peer-to-peer social cloud computing, is an area of computer science that generalizes cloud computing to include the sharing, bartering and renting of computing resources across peers whose owners and operators are verified through a social network or reputation system.

  7. Citizen science - Wikipedia

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    Citizen science (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is research conducted with participation from the general public, or amateur/nonprofessional researchers or participants for science, social science and many other disciplines.

  8. Crowd computing - Wikipedia

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    Crowd computing is a form of distributed work where tasks that are hard for computers to do, are handled by large numbers of humans distributed across the internet.. It is an overarching term encompassing tools that enable idea sharing, non-hierarchical decision making and utilization of "cognitive surplus" - the ability of the world’s population to collaborate on large, sometimes global ...

  9. History of cloud computing - Wikipedia

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    Cloud computing extended this boundary to cover all servers as well as the network infrastructure. [7] As computers became more diffused, scientists and technologists explored ways to make large-scale computing power available to more users through time-sharing. [ 6 ]