Cloud Computing

So-called cloud computing has become of increasing interest to large tech companies, so Google and IBM have teamed up to spur more research on the subject at the university level.

Cloud computing refers in general to software applications that are delivered over the Internet. Examples of cloud computing range from Google’s Web services for consumers to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud for businesses.

With cloud computing, organizations, such as companies or government agencies, can have access to massive amounts of computing power without having to expand their own data centers. In essence, computing is offered in the same way a utility offers water or electricity – on demand.