2008-05-23

Cloud Computing

"Cloud computing" means - in contrast to the traditional notion of a supercomputer, with many locally connected processors - a collection of computing resources will residing somewhere on the web connected and used as needed.

Some clips about a direction in which the information infrastructure seems to be moving:

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Defining cloud computing

Ask a dozen people what "cloud computing" means and you'll get a dozen different answers,

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Cloud computing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cloud computing or Server Cloud, gained attention in 2007 as it became a popular solution to the problem of horizontal scalability.

The architecture behind cloud computing is a massive network of "cloud servers" interconnected as if in a grid running in parallel, sometimes using the technique of virtualization to maximize computing power per server.