Cloud Computing 101

This is an excellent piece on cloud computing in a digestible format-

In a remarkably short time, cloud computing has emerged as a hugely important evolution in the way that

businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. It’s a fundamental shift to an operational

model in which applications don’t live out their lives on a specific piece of hardware and in which resources

are more flexibly deployed than was the historical norm. It’s also a fundamental shift to a development and

consumption model that replaces hard-wired, proprietary connections among software components and the

consumers of those components with lightweight web services and web-based software access.

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