It’s on-demand internet-based computing that dynamically scales based on needs. It’s like the electricity grid. After you ask the electric company to turn it on, you can walk into every room, turn on every light and leave it on as long as you want.
Imagine what it would be like if you had to buy your own generator, put gas in it, fire it up every night after work just to do the laundry or watch TV? What would it be like to wake up on the hottest of nights this summer because the generator quit and there’s no air conditioning? Imagine having to grab your flash light, traipse out behind the garage and figure out why the generator isn’t running. Not fun. Or what happens when you finally throw down for a new flat screen television and your generator sputters to a halt as a result of the increased power requirements?
True, most people don’t purchase a generator to power their home…or business for that matter. Cloud computing is a particularly noteworthy solution for small businesses. It provides the benefit of allowing you to focus on what you do best without having to worry about the costly hardware, software and maintenance of your IT infrastructure. In a financial sense, you don’t have to be good with numbers to appreciate the cost associated with owning and maintaining your own servers, let alone hosting and maintaining your own inner office business applications.
Cloud Computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid. – Wikipedia
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