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Title

Cloud Computing

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2-5-2009

Comments

Presented at NUTech Meeting, February 5, 2009. This work is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 USA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ © 2009 Elaine L. Westbrooks

Abstract

What is it?
How does it work?
Who cares?
What are the Advantages & Disadvantages?
Future ofthe technology?
Discussion

The "cloud" is the term for networked computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines. Cloud computing is specialized data centers that host thousands of servers