te Database with job requirements, qualifications, and names of hiring managers; API link to developer's software Mr. Green Applicants submit résumés to XYZ Corp. software in the cloud Figure 1-7 The links between a developer's software in the cloud and a client organization's computer. Cloud Computing PaaS: Cloud-Based Data Centers with Specialized Software Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers offer data centers with specialized software to enterprises and application developers. For example, one PaaS provider, Microsoft, currently maintains massive data centers in Chicago, Texas, Dublin, Amersterdam, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The Microsoft Azure platform is available to developers to customize into applications that they in turn offer to their customers. An enterprise customer can also create applications directly on Azure, or use the standard office software such as word processing and spreadsheet applications as well as productivity applications such as web conferencing and calendaring, and then later port them to Azure. By using applications housed on Azure, organizations eliminate the complexity of supporting in-house applications. Azure also offers storage facilities to developers and enterprise customers. A bank can store a year's worth of records on Azure to which each of its customers and their own staff have access. Akamai Technologies maintains platforms that are deployed on 950 public net- works worldwide, where it hosts web sites for major enterprise customers focused on e-commerce. Web applications located on these servers generate massive amounts of multi-media Internet traffic, such as games, map generation, search, and dealer/store locators. Akamai intercepts this web traffic for its customers and sends it to its desti- nation on the fastest available route. It uses web application acceleration software to remove delays in HTML traffic caused by chatty protocols that its enterprise and major e-commerce customers employ. Akamai's security services are available at each of the public networks in