What is Cloud Computing?

Tue, Aug 18, 2009

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Cloud Computing is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that — on the surface — don’t seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? It’s been called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link it to such concepts as grid computing — which is a way of taking many different computers and linking them together to form one very big computer.

A basic definition of cloud computing is the use of the Internet for the tasks you perform on your computer. The “cloud” represents the Internet.

To read more about cloud computing as a service, platform and more, read the full article here

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