the.com/cloud computing
Renting someone else's computer and calling it the future.
means Storing data and running software on remote servers accessed over the internet, rather than on your own local machine.
from 'Cloud' here comes from network diagrams: engineers drew the internet, or any network whose internal details didn't matter to the task at hand, as a fluffy cloud symbol. 'Out there, somewhere, don't worry about it.' The phrase 'cloud computing' picked up steam in tech and marketing circles in the mid-2000s as companies started selling remote storage and computing power as a service, but the cloud-as-network-diagram habit is older, going back to earlier decades of networking diagrams and telecom jargon.
- the cloud
- literally a warehouse in Virginia
- origin term
- borrowed from network diagrams drawn as clouds
- real cost
- often pricier than owning hardware long-term
- big three
- AWS, Azure, Google control most of it