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What is cloud computing?

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by modsbyus

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I have been getting all this information on cloud computing in emails from Techrepublic for months. A couple of major essential pieces of information elude me.

1) What is cloud computing?
2) What can I do with it in the enterprise and at home?

Besides those two major questions, How do our end users on the network use it?

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by raffyplacido

According to the official NIST definition, "cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
Link: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-102511.cfm
Hope this helps.

by Wizard57M-TR

Do you think after 2 years the original poster is still looking for the
answer to this homework question? I doubt it.

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