What is Cloud Computing? When on the subject, that is usually the first question to come up. It is also the one you should be certain that everyone involved agrees upon. Wikipedia has a short but reasonable description of it here. Two sentences within the Wikipedia entry that do are a particulate good job of summing it up are “Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software as a service, Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, where the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. For example, Google Apps provides common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers”.

Without getting in to any detail about what really sits behind that software as a service, it answers the question well enough for most people. Others will need more information... Read More...