Cloud Computing

I really liked the explanation of the woman at 3:28. She had a great definition or explanation of Cloud Computing by saying if you need software or hardware it's not cloud computing. She said all you need is an internet connection. She really helped me understand it for the first time, I wasn't really catching what the other guys were saying before her. I think Cloud Computing doesn't require extra work, from what I gathered from this video. The man in the video at 5:35 argues that it's web 2.0. I gather that it's the new next big thing in computing. According to Wikipedia, cloud computing is not something that requires knowledge of a physical location of your system. It is a current, updated form of web 2.0 where you don't need expertise in the technology infrastructure. I think I would do well with it if it doesn't require much. lol I also learned that the term cloud is a metaphor used for the internet.


Here is a defintiion from the National Instittue of Standards and Technology (NIST):"Cloud computing is a model for enabling 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."


So basically cloud computing is saved data into a database that is accessible via the internet, while web 2.0 is essentially the same thing with interactive shared software. It's still confusing to me. =)