What is this CLOUD Thing Anyways?

So what is this CLOUD thing anyways? The cloud is one of the hot buzz words thats been floating around the IT industry for some time now. It sounds like some mystical thing (or depending on who you ask the title of a horror movie) but what really is the cloud? Well at a high level The cloud is a network of servers, used for various purposed but for the most part to run applications. The Cloud is physical infrastructure residing in massive warehouses all over the world. Cloud computing refers to the process of sharing the resources of a network of computers when storing and processing information to optimize performance. What are the benefits of cloud computing? Well there are many and we will explore them over time but why so much emphasis on cloud computing? Well with all of the data, big data, and ginormous data in the world today it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain good quality and performance of applications and devices. Cloud computing helps solves some of these issues as we will learn in the future....

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