Cloud Provider
PAGoDA was developed with the availability of a cloud provider as the default situation.
Cloud Provider and Cloud Computing ?
The Wikipedia Cloud Computing entry states:
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet.
Many cloud service models are available among which:
Within the PAGoDA context, a cloud provider is defined as a service proposing Infrastructure as a Service like OpenStack does.
Supported Cloud Provider
Each entry of the following supported cloud provider list links to the respective documentation presenting the considered cloud provider, explaining how to ensure that your access to such a cloud provider is effective and providing some tutorials to learn how to use such cloud provider: