Week 2: Muddy

I've had to do some research to understand what cloud computing is. The term is completely new to me and describing the storage on a computer with a cloud created a visual in my mind that didn't work.

What I was able to understand was that cloud computing dealt with storage. Instead of storing information or data on your own computer and taking up space on your memory, you can store that information online. Thus, you could just check the Internet for that information instead of your computer. So if you lost that computer (or it broke) that data would still be out there on the Internet and not be lost.

But how does that work? Are there storage Web sites that just host your data on their serves or what? In conducting my further research on how one can cloud compute, I found a easy-to-understand video that you can watch below.



The video is worth watching just for the host!
Watching that guy twitch as he speaks in that accent made the further research worth it! :]

Another place where you can find lots of information on cloud computing is InfoWorld's analysis on the basic use of cloud computing.

That's all for this week. Next week there will be a new concept that will either be clear...or muddy.
Until then!