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:

clipped from news.cnet.com Defining cloud computing Ask a dozen people what "cloud computing" means and you'll get a dozen different answers, clipped from en.wikipedia.org 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. clipped from www.infoworld.com Inside the emerging world of cloud computing clipped from www.infoworld.com What cloud computing really means clipped from www.infoworld.com Early experiments in cloud computing clipped from www.infoworld.com A step closer to the integrated cloud clipped from www.infoworld.com Amazon's cloud computing service fuels startup's launch clipped from www.howstuffworks.com How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work clipped from www.businessweek.com Google and the Wisdom of Clouds clipped from technology.timesonline.co.uk May 5, 2008 Cloud computing Are there dangers to having information infrastructure, software and services hosted on the internet rather than on our own personal computers?

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Cloud computing - Times Online