Every day each of us log onto Moodle and read news on this class or upload posts to our blogs we can thank cloud computing. Cloud computing gives us the ability to sit at our computer and connect with other millions of users of the Internet worldwide. Every file, document, link, etc. that can be shared publically through the Internet is powered by cloud computing. To visualize how cloud computing works we could picture a massive bubble, this massive bubble would be known as ‘the cloud’ or ‘the computer cloud’. All around the outside of this cloud you can see computers that are external sources that create one massive cloud with all of their software, data and information that each of these computers share through each other. Smaller bubbles in the cloud could be Google, AOL, Microsoft, Firefox, Yahoo, YouTube, Zoho and more. This entire picture makes up how cloud computing is supported and operated. A conceptual diagram could be found at Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing).
Every server that plays a roll on the Internet that offers information or any public material is linked to a massive server via cloud computing. For this class specifically, we are connected through Moodle and our blogs. Both of those WebPages are linked to a cloud-computing server that makes up our class through all of our students. This cloud is also connected to other massive clouds that support Moodle and the other sites that we use for our class. Without cloud computing there would be much less information world wide than there is already, also we can see a reduction in face to face transactions and waiting on lines. Instead we can sit at home and order products through the Internet and cloud computing connects you directly to the seller. This is something that aids us nationally because we are able to share information and data so much more easily.
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