You store your data and run programs on some server that is on the internet. You have no clue where the data is actually stored or where those programs are run. It is called cloud computing/storage because when they draw diagrams of networking principles, they use a cloud for the internet as it is a network of networks and how stuff works in it is irrelevant to the diagram they are drawing.
Future programmer February 7, 2014
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a metered service over a network (typically the Internet).
Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. A parallel to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.
You store your data and run programs on some server that is on the internet. You have no clue where the data is actually stored or where those programs are run. It is called cloud computing/storage because when they draw diagrams of networking principles, they use a cloud for the internet as it is a network of networks and how stuff works in it is irrelevant to the diagram they are drawing.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a metered service over a network (typically the Internet).
Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. A parallel to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.
Go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing