Cloud service providers invest in the necessary infrastructure and management systems, and in return receive a time-based or usage-based fee from end users [17]. Cloud computing is emerging today as a commercial infrastructure that eliminates the need for maintaining expensive computing hardware.
Area: 9,400,000 sq.km. Population: 2.5 million people. Population density: o.4/sq. km or less than 1 person per sq mi. Sahara is the largest non-polar desert and the hottest of the sub-tropical deserts in the world. The desert can be estimated nearly as large as USA or China. Sahara covers most of the north-Africa under its belt by bordering with Red Sea, touching Mediterranean coasts to Atlantic shelves.
Sahara Desert. Of the deserts of the world, the Sahara Desert is the largest desert that falls into a sub-tropical climate. The Sahara covers most of northeastern Africa which is about 10% of the continent. It is nearly as large as the United States in terms of land area.