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CLOUD COMPUTING THE NEXT BIG THING

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   What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Comp uting is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that -- on the surface -- don't seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? I've heard it called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link it to such concepts as grid computing -- which is a way of taking many different computers and linking them together to form one very big computer. A basic definition of cloud computing is the use of the Internet for the tasks you perform on your computer. The "cloud" represents the Internet. Cloud Computing is a Service The simplest thing that a computer does is allow us to store and retrieve information. We can store our family photographs, our favorite songs, or even save movies on it. This is also the most basic service offered by cloud computing. Flickr is a great example of cloud computing as a service. While

INSIDE LOOK OF GOOGLE DATA STORAGE CENTERS :- HOW DO THEY DO IT ??

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           WHERE DOES GOOGLE STORES IT DATA?                                   For those of us who use the internet on a regular basis, Google is the great answerer of interrogatives. Have a question? Be it common ( What is the difference between an acid and a base? ) or more obscure ( How do monkeys go about peeling bananas?   ), Google is sure to turn up an answer that – if nothing else – points you in the right direction. There are other search engines, of course; but none have been verbed (think “Google it”) or even been made an official term in the Oxford Dictionary, like Google. There may have been a time when peers encouraged one another to “Ask Jeeves” or “Yahoo it,” but that time is long gone. Google is the search king in terms of U.S. market share at 65.6% (with Microsoft’s Bing at 16.5%).     Apart from search, Google operates its own social network (Google+), Gmail, an advertising business that fetched over $43 billion in revenue in 2012, and a host of other prod