A community cloud is a multi-tenant infrastructure that is
shared among several organizations from a specific group with common computing concerns. Such
concerns might be related to regulatory compliance, such as
audit requirements, or may be related to performance requirements, such as hosting applications
that require a quick response time, for
example.
The goal of a community cloud is to have participating organizations realize the benefits of a
public cloud --
such as multi-tenancy and
a pay-as-you-go billing structure -- but with the added level of privacy, security and policy compliance
usually associated with a private cloud. The
community cloud can be either on-premises or off-premises, and can be governed by the participating
organizations or by a third-party managed service provider (MSP).
Contributor(s): Kim Hefner
This was last updated in February 2012
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