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What is cloud computing?

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Monday September 21, 2009
Recently there's been a lot of talk about "

cloud computing

" but what does that mean? The so-called "cloud" represents the Internet and

cloud computing

is really work and software that resides on the Internet or in the "cloud."

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Show Notes

- Wikipedia on cloud computing

- Until recently computer software and data resided exclusively on local computers.

- More and more

software is designed to work online

.

- It is now very common for data that used to reside on your computer to reside on the Internet instead.

- "

Cloud computing

" refers to the ability to use software from a Web browser and store the resulting data on the server.

-

Software as a Service

(SaaS) is an aspect of "cloud computing".

- When you have your email on Gmail, your home page on Yahoo!, your music on Pandora and your documents in Google Documents, you are participating in "cloud computing."
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