What is "Cloud Computing"(for Dummmies like me)

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  I think 'cloud' is nothing but a new discovery of marketing people. Cloud is nothing but multiple servers connected to each other; that look like a single server to the end user. That's all!
  
  Typical Setup:
  
  [1 Server] -----> Client sees it as one server. The world is a nice place.
  
  Cloud:
  
  [Server1 + Server 2 + .....] ------------> Client sees it as 'one' server and calls it 'cloud'. Marketing folks make money by selling 'cloud'. The world's become a nicer place.
  
  😁
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  Ramani Aswath

  Kaustubh Katdare

  The world's become a nicer place.

  With some holes in gullible purses I suppose.
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  Ashraf HZ

  Okay, in networking, a "cloud" does represent a network like the Internet (with a gazillion of network devices connected to each other - along the same lines as what Biggie says).
  
  In business context, cloud computing is hosting your applications on 3rd party platforms. For end users like us, this is quite obvious (Gmail, Facebook, etc), but for a lot of businesses out there, applications are still running on servers running in house and supported by in house IT teams (e.g Exchange, Sharepoint, DB, AD, etc). In the end, you don't have to worry about specialist IT resources, frequent hardware refreshes, redundancy, etc.
  
  These days, the trend is consolidating servers with Virtualization and shifting applications to the cloud.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  The biggest advantage we've experienced by moving to the cloud is that we don't have to worry about the underlying hardware. You also get rid of the management costs involved in recruiting and managing teams of IT specialists. Also, scaling of servers (adding more space, memory, processors etc.) is easy.
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  Anoop Kumar

  I never found such simple explanation of Cloud computing with other technology matters.
  For cloud computing Jump to time 02:13.