Question

A medium-sized highway construction company CST has chosen to constrain its investment in computing resources to laptop and desktop computers and the necessary networking hardware and software to access the Internet efficiently. All of CST's data is to be stored off-site through an Internet-enabled storage provider that is used by many different companies and organizations. The service model employed for the data storage capability of only CST is:

Answer 1

Answer:

The service model employed for the data storage capability of only CST is:

SaaS (Software as a Service).

Explanation:

The three cloud computing categories are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).  The three cloud computing services provide different virtual computing resources.  In the case of CST, it utilizes only the data storage software of a provider, who provides the data storage infrastructure, including cloud-based servers, while CST uses its own "laptop and desktop computers and other networking hardware and software to access the Internet efficiently."