cloud computing is basically doing everything online, using applications and storing data online. It is for everyone, anyone can use google docs google mail sky drive etc. In fact google brings out a laptop next year which will be a pure cloud computer where everything is done online.
Andy December 22, 2013
There’s a couple ways to look at it but a simple way is online data storage, online programs, and other computer services. Both really, Google Docs is for general use.
Benjamin December 22, 2013
Edit: I should make it clear that you consistently are making use of cloud-computing when you access many online web services, but in terms of actually building a cloud-service, or moving your own web service ‘to the cloud’ – that’s left to corporations usually.
Cloud Computing is mostly used for Corporations, usually for web servers.
There are a couple of different Cloud Computing strategies that are common. The first is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) such as Amazon’s cloud service.
A CDN lets you upload a file to one server and then have it distributed across tens, hundreds or even thousands of servers around the world. The file will be available for download from any one of those servers, and if one server fails, the user automatically downloads from the next available server on the cloud. By default, the user downloads from the closest server or the server with the lowest ping time. The advantage is that there is an extraordinary amount of redundancy and the speed at which users can download will likely increase. In addition, the traffic load from the downloads is taken off your main/central webserver where you host your web pages.
Another strategy is to form a linked network of tens or hundreds of servers that all work together as one unit to provide a web service for example. If one of the ‘nodes’ in the cloud fails, it does not affect the rest of the cloud (well no drastic effects), and the node can easily be replaced without having any downtime. The traffic and system resource load is easily distributed across the different server nodes.
When a business says it’s moving to ‘the cloud’, it means that instead of hosting their web site or web service in-house with their own server… they are instead outsourcing their web service to a server-farm/cloud where there is less maintenance involved and less chance of failure. The only major disadvantage to moving to the cloud is that you rest your data security in the hands of your cloud provider which may be a problem for companies with very confidential data.
Some companies like Yahoo (but namely Google) build their own server clouds to run all their web services for searching, email etc.
cloud computing is basically doing everything online, using applications and storing data online. It is for everyone, anyone can use google docs google mail sky drive etc. In fact google brings out a laptop next year which will be a pure cloud computer where everything is done online.
There’s a couple ways to look at it but a simple way is online data storage, online programs, and other computer services. Both really, Google Docs is for general use.
Edit: I should make it clear that you consistently are making use of cloud-computing when you access many online web services, but in terms of actually building a cloud-service, or moving your own web service ‘to the cloud’ – that’s left to corporations usually.
Cloud Computing is mostly used for Corporations, usually for web servers.
There are a couple of different Cloud Computing strategies that are common. The first is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) such as Amazon’s cloud service.
A CDN lets you upload a file to one server and then have it distributed across tens, hundreds or even thousands of servers around the world. The file will be available for download from any one of those servers, and if one server fails, the user automatically downloads from the next available server on the cloud. By default, the user downloads from the closest server or the server with the lowest ping time. The advantage is that there is an extraordinary amount of redundancy and the speed at which users can download will likely increase. In addition, the traffic load from the downloads is taken off your main/central webserver where you host your web pages.
Another strategy is to form a linked network of tens or hundreds of servers that all work together as one unit to provide a web service for example. If one of the ‘nodes’ in the cloud fails, it does not affect the rest of the cloud (well no drastic effects), and the node can easily be replaced without having any downtime. The traffic and system resource load is easily distributed across the different server nodes.
When a business says it’s moving to ‘the cloud’, it means that instead of hosting their web site or web service in-house with their own server… they are instead outsourcing their web service to a server-farm/cloud where there is less maintenance involved and less chance of failure. The only major disadvantage to moving to the cloud is that you rest your data security in the hands of your cloud provider which may be a problem for companies with very confidential data.
Some companies like Yahoo (but namely Google) build their own server clouds to run all their web services for searching, email etc.
It is computing done in cloud (I mean internet) read article http://techmarketcondition.blogspot.com it explains it in simplest term.