Cloud Computing - intro

Cloud Computing - What? and Why?

       Cloud computing can be considered as a relatively new technology for delivering services over internet. It allows users to use application software without installation and access their personal files with internet.  This is done by storing data and applications in remote servers. This technology enables much more efficient computational efficiency by centralizing storage and processing power. 

       This concept opens a vast amount of opportunities to utilize hardware as well as software. Reservation of hardware leads to develop much more sophisticated and user-friendly devices to be manufactured. So, it's apparent that cloud computing will enable human to produce smaller gadgets in the future since all the processing and storing can be done elsewhere. The only requirement of such a gadget would be having a user interface with internet connectivity.

      Here are some examples for well known cloud computing service providers :

               Yahoo email or Gmail

               Google

               Amazon

               IBM

               Microsoft

               VMware

               Facebook

Above providers provide many specific services like email, searching, gaming, sharing and many more to their customers.

for more:

http://en.wikipedia.org