For Companies, Cloud Computing Concepts Clear
Cloud computing is an inexpensive way to launch a new business for which demand is unknown, and now cloud-computing providers are pushing their services hard to big companies, which have voiced more concerns about privacy and security. A significant benefit of cloud computing is easier data recovery in the event of a disaster.
Cloud computing used to be one of those wispy technical phrases that was hard to define. Was it a new name for outsourcing? A different kind of computer network
? Or just marketing nonsense?
Cloud computing used to be one of those wispy technical phrases that was hard to define. Was it a new name for outsourcing? A different kind of computer network
? Or just marketing nonsense? But the overcast outlook is beginning to clear: Cloud computing is a new business that lets you rent computers by the hour, the way you might rent a fishing boat.
Just ask Jim Graham, a 3M technical manager, who has launched a new software business from his St. Paul, Minn., research lab without using any 3M computers. Instead it lives "in the cloud
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