Microsoft has just announced the company's strategy for cloud computing, called Azure. But what is 'cloud computing'. Here's a simple explanation:
Cloud computing, utility computing, Web 3.0 and grid computing are
all jargon to describe a simple concept: Access to seemingly limitless
computing power and storage space via the Internet.
If you use Google's Gmail service for e-mail, you've touched the cloud.
As of Monday, millions of Gmail users had 7,045 free megabytes of e-mail space each -- more than enough to store more than 7 million plain text e-mails.
That's the triumph of cloud computing. The downside, however, was
illustrated one day last week when Gmail suffered an outage, and
millions temporarily lost access to their e-mails. (Source: Seattle Tech Report)
