By hearing the name a picture might have popped in your mind where a person sitting high up at the peak of a hill is operating a computer just very near to the periphery of a normal fluffy white typical cloud. Well if you might have thought of it then, congratulations! you have just stepped on the basic step of understanding this technology.Well this is not exactly the case but further you will get to know about it as you read further.

Why the name cloud?

Since from the primary school we all are aware that normal cloud is a cluster of water vapours floating high up in the air and obviously is not stationary i.e. it keeps on hovering. Similarly a computing cloud is a dense cluster of computers working together in such way that to a normal observer they all appear to be one giant computing resource.So in short this is about the cloud stuff. These cloud computers include servers,storage,networking applications and services that can be easily and rapidly provisioned and released.  

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