Cloud Technologies
Cloud Technologies is the domain of engineering and computer science devoted to manufacturing, maintaining, setting, and documenting servers. Cloud machines must possess significantly larger resources, such as random access memory (RAM) and hard drive storage, often including GPU [1, 56-61]. These technologies almost always run various distributions of Linux since the Linux kernel is stable, reliable, well-tested, and has become the industry standard. It can also run for prolonged periods without suffering performance. Meanwhile, Windows Server alternatives possess poor application management and require regular shutdown.
An essential aspect of cloud technology is virtualisation, the technique used to create one virtual machine with its own associated resources, apps and OS kernel. [2, 24-36] Virtualisation allows multiple servers unite their strengths and act as one whole, which becomes useful if an enterprise operates large data centers that run the same apps.
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