CLOUD COMPUTING THE NEXT BIG THING
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