cloud computing

here's something new i suppose, but it's something growing quite rapidly it seems throughout d previous 6 mths plus.

cloud computing, what is it? it's actually a very interesting concept with lots of advantages and is getting picked up quite fast recently due to the economic crisis or should i say recession? it's d same anyway, ok. so with every company large and small trying to cut their budgets but would also like growth, they would venture into this new little concept. up till now, do u hv any idea of what this cloud computing means? neither do i beforehand but i've seen it popping up everywhere from magazines, to newspaper, to advertisements and basically everywhere.

it's 2009 now, and most of the companies nowadays would result to computerizing their office and system. it's certainly faster, simpler n easier to use but 1 thing is not good ... it's expensive.

for instance :- data is very important to every company, so they would need a storage space to store all these important data but purchasing for a data server would cost a lot for soho(small office home office) to implement. cloud computing could help them in this way, for internet being so common nowadays, these data can be stored in certain data centers hosting these types of service for a monthly fee of course and will keep the information private and confidential to the client.

another instance of cloud computing :- software licensing for commercial use also cost a lot, therefore resulting into opensource development of these software and now it is made online. online applications such as google apps, yahoo and amazon host these kinds of solution which helps clients solve the expenditure problems.

users can avoid capital expenditure on hardware, software and maintainence upfront rather than just pay the rental service by monthly basis. users can generally terminate the contract anytime in between just like stopping a newspaper subscription. tat's lots of savings compared to 1 shot implementation of computerization in a small company.

well, jus something i would like to share with everyone :)
hope tat i didn't make any mistakes here ... hehe