On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > Theoretically, a cloud is a virtual storage device where the actual storage > media should be in several different locations fully mirrored.
I understand the value of backups, and I understand the value of virtual computing, and parallel computing, and other things. Could someone (and I apologize if this is OT to the thread) explain to me what exactly the buzzword "cloud computing" means, exactly? My BS detector flashes every time someone says it, but I have been wrong once (okay, *maybe* twice) in the past. Is it just a way of saying that you have a distributed, parallel app whose individual nodes can come online (or go offline) dynamically without interrupting the service? Is it strictly used to reference data storage - as in the original email in this thread - or does it mean more than that? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
