Even in mainstream news these days you here about cloud computing and how it will change the world.\u00a0 Yet really, what is cloud?<\/p>\n
The whole topic reminds me of a discussion I led in college.\u00a0 I asked the group how many people at the start of discussion how many of them were feminists.\u00a0 Very very few raised their hands.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 I then asked each person to define what a feminist was.\u00a0 We then read out and discussed those definitions.\u00a0 Like defining cloud, they were all over the map.\u00a0 We finally decided on a definition of feminist as someone who believes in equal rights for women and men.\u00a0 Armed with this definition we polled ourselves again on what is a feminist.\u00a0 The result?\u00a0 Almost every hand was raised.<\/p>\n
I believe it’s the same with cloud.<\/p>\n
The fact is, cloud computing is used by everyone on the internet every day.\u00a0 It is in fact the Internet itself – a group of remotely accessibly computing resources.<\/p>\n
Glad we got that out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even in mainstream news these days you here about cloud computing and how it will change the world.\u00a0 Yet really, what is cloud? The whole topic reminds me of a discussion I led in college.\u00a0 I asked the group how many people at the start of discussion how many of them were feminists.\u00a0 Very very … Continue reading What is cloud?<\/span>