Mike Rosen: The cloud is about providing services, whether it's infrastructure, platform or software as a service.

Mike Rosen：云是关于提供服务的，不管它是基础设施及服务、平台即服务还是软件即服务。

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Clouds deliver infrastructure, platform, and software (application) as services, which are made available as subscription-based services in a pay-as-you-go model to consumers.

云计算的服务包含基础设施、平台和软件(应用)，采用即付即用模式，消费者通过订购可获取服务。

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LinkedIn evolved from creating a professional network amongst colleagues to becoming an infrastructure platform for the entire professional recruitment industry.

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Apigee, an API management and infrastructure platform, is focused on helping people use APIs to both gain access and to provide access to external data.

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The Treasury tried to correct this flaw by encouraging the National Association of Pension Funds to create a so-called Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP), which brings together disparate pension funds with a collective interest in putting debt and equity into new British infrastructure.

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