explain cloud computing to me

rootlesscosmo

anyone hip to this?b,121b,121nerds, say words.b,121b,121 img src="http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/CLOUD.GIF"1

DOR

a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/25/cloud_dziuba/" target="_blank"1http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/25/cloud_dziuba//a1b,121b,121b,121 img src="http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/images/cloud-computing-simply-explained-cartoon.jpg"1

DJFerrari

Basically it's Software as a Service... taking advantage of existing infrastructure so you don't need to build your own. So stuff done on the Interwebs.

DJ_Enki

It basically means putting stuff online. Like, instead of using your own IT infrastructure, you'd do use somebody else's infrastructure online.b,121b,121And now, a link to the labor of my day job, thereby justifying 'Struttage during office hours: a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/07/15FE-cloud-computing-reality_1.html" target="_blank"1What cloud computing really means/a1.