What's the big deal about cloud computing? What is it and why is it important? Who needs it? It's hot but it's not trendy. New challenging jobs in the field are being created everyday. Read about the pros and cons of the Cloud.
cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
In short, Without direct user involvement, there is online access to computer system resources, particularly data storage (cloud storage) and processing power.
Years ago when I was explaining to a group of friends how to use AOL Press I used the expression "The drive in the Sky." Cloud computing became popular later.
In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the internet instead of your computer's hard drive. When you store data on or run programs from the hard drive, that's called local storage and computing.
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