“The Cloud” is not one single entity. It’s built upon an array of services that are offered by many vendors across the entirety of the Internet. Each service is unique and can be transformed to fit the user’s needs. There are many cloud providers that offer the same or similar services. Cloud computing is much like an other common utility such as electricity, water, garbage, etc. It allows the user to pay for the service in use rather than investing in the whole system. In simplest terms, cloud computing is the storing and accessing of data over the Internet rather than a computer’s hard drive.
This new network service has expanded data storage to new levels and reduces the need to have a large hard drive on your own system. It is great because when a local hard drive fills up there is no longer the need to purchase physical equipment, everything can be stored on the virtual cloud. And that is only one application of its use. The Cloud is a complicated system with very unique attributes that make it function. There are two methods to abstraction and five characteristics that will provide a basic understanding of this recent technology.
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