Dateline : September 25, 2008

Look up at the "Cloud" its getting bigger

The internet or "cloud" is ever evolving and is a major part of our daily lives from personal to business. Cloud computing is the term that is gaining more and more attention that describes how businesses incorporate software as a service, Web 2.0 and other recent trends that rely on the internet to provide these services to the home and office.

It is the future that may one day have our computing needs satisfied by a monitor, cell phone and/ or connection to the internet. Everything else will be accessible via the cloud from accessing business applications and other software to storage all on a server hosted by someone else.

Cloud computing has been confused with Grid computing which is a method of combining many computers to form a cluster of networked systems that are capable of performing large tasks. It would seem, however, that the convergence of Grid and the Cloud will someday happen to offer something even larger.

It is no wonder that so many companies especially the elitists of the data center industry are building and expanding new facilities every month. If the cloud is the next wave they are ready to ride it in.

To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2049&Itemid=40