What Is Cloud Computing
For the last year and some change the big buzzword has been cloud computing, some big names have enter the cloud computing world such as Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, Google and IBM. Though it has gone by other names such as grid computing, the cloud-computing infrastructure has made many great achievements in less then two years. You have Google and its online applications, Amazon is running its own hosting just so users can design, implement and run their own cloud based applications, and yet the premis for cloud computing is data storage and I mean billions of gigs worth of data storage.
So what is cloud computing exactly? Well thanks to a little dictionary website, “Cloud computing is a computing paradigm in which tasks are assigned to a combination of connections, software and services accessed over a network. This network of servers and connections is collectively known as “the cloud.” Computing at the scale of the cloud allows users to access supercomputer-level power. Using a thin client or other access point, like an iPhone, BlackBerry or laptop, users can reach into the cloud for resources as they need them. For this reason, cloud computing has also been described as “on-demand computing.”
So in short basically ever computer based device is connected in some shape or form and so basically you could type up a document at your office, make edits on your Iphone on a plane, and print it out a few minutes before the meeting starts. In the coming weeks I will be talking about various articles that I have encountered on the internet with a culmination of a research paper that I am writing right now on cloud computing tentatively titled “Flying High in the Clouds of Computing”. So stay tune as some of information I will be mentioning will be based of the same articles that I have used for my paper, but more casual then academic.
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