 LinklistPremium
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Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | reply to zod5000
Re: Stop calling it the cloud! said by zod5000:Basically the cloud is a synonym for the internet. Save it to the cloud means save it online (via the internet).
I'm not really sure why they decided to call it the "cloud". People were saving files and data to the internet before someone tried to coin is as the "cloud".
And the "cloud" implies that it isn't just the data stored there, but the processing is done there as well.
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 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1 | reply to Linklist
Of which one of the early examples I can think of [for cloud computing] is Seti and folding/gnome at home. |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | reply to Tommy M
said by Tommy M :And the "cloud" implies that it isn't just the data stored there, but the processing is done there as well. Dunno. "Server" suggests the same thing, given it has, well, a processor. Not quite. "Server" suggests a particular piece of stuff. "Cloud" at least has the useful benefit of including the notion that you don't know, and don't need to know, where it's running, whether it's running on one lump of stuff or several, whether and when it can move around, and all the flexibility benefits. So there's a need for some word for all that. But it ought to have technical substance; "cloud" is now mostly buzzword. |
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