What really is “The Cloud”? And how does it work – A simple explainer
July 30, 2014
Grazed from HeraldSun. Author: Rod Chester.
No, not “will you marry me?”. That’s another story. This is the story of “It’s in the cloud”. Cloud computing is something most people do but often with little comprehension of what they are actually doing. When the US government started to get confused about the term “cloud computing” and what it meant, it ordered the National Institute of Standards and Technology to define it.
It came up with this: “cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people.” Well, that clears things up then, in a cloudy way. “Cloud computing” is something we say everyday. A lot. In fact, there are about 48 million times someone has said it on the web, according to Google…
Possibly, quite a number of those occasions were sentences that began with “what the hell is…”, “what the bloody hell is …” and “how do I get a job as the guy at the National Institute of Standards and Technology who has to define …”
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