Have you ever used facebook? What about iTunes? These are just a couple of things you deal with on a daily basis that utilize a form of cloud computing. Facebook uses servers in data centers to process and store all of our data that we can access at anytime. iTunes uses another form of cloud computing in which you might be familiar with, or at least the name of its cloud network the iCloud. The iCloud helps save storage on your personal devices by being able to access but not have to store all of the information on your devices. You can pull from iCloud to multiple devices. Cloud computing allows the user to not have to be concerned with having crazy amounts of storage space on their phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. So what is Cloud Computing?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition of cloud computing is:
"Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources"
What does this mean you ask?
In the simplest form, cloud computing is a way to access, store, and process data and applications on a non local server over the internet. Really we have the ability to access to all that you could ever want or need, and all you have to have is an internet connection.
Why is cloud computing important?
For me it saves alot of memory space on my personal devices and I dont have to worry about connecting each of them one at a time. Moreover I am very busy so having access to music, email or facebook on the go is nice because I can access all of these from just my phone.
Do you think its important in your daily life?
http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/index.cfm"
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