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.
1 The world's largest desert is the Sahara in North Africa. 2  Areas of scrub land that border the desert are called desert scrub. 3  Mediterranean climates are not too hot or cold. 4  They are found around the Mediterranean Sea, near Cape Town in South Africa and Melbourne in Australia.