Sky's the Limit for Cloud Computing
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"IF YOU DON'T HAVE A 'CLOUD STORY,' you better get one," advises Riverbed Technology's chief executive officer, Jerry Kennelly, echoing the importance -- and hyperbole -- accorded the Internet a decade ago. Kennelly's storage and networking company could be a major beneficiary of the cloud trend that's expected to transform computing over the next decade or so.
What exactly is cloud computing? Definitions vary wildly, but it is essentially the interconnection of computer-data centers via a network, usually the Internet. The cloud image is a tracing of Internet links that connect several different computer systems.
You're in the clouds when you access a photo from a social-networking Website like FaceBook or MySpace and store your pictures on the site, rather than on your hard drive. You're also using cloud computing if you're a small-business owner who decides to access his sales group's customer-relationship programs via a Web browser from Salesforce.com (CRM: 74.82, +1.05, +1.42%) because he hates the hassle or expense of maintaining his own software applications. And if you're a giant Barron's 400 company that doesn't want to invest in any more data-storage arrays and opts to store digital information with IBM-run (IBM: 132.45, +1.55, +1.18%) data centers, you're again operating in the clouds.
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"IF YOU DON'T HAVE A 'CLOUD STORY,' you better get one," advises Riverbed Technology's chief executive officer, Jerry Kennelly, echoing the importance -- and hyperbole -- accorded the Internet a decade ago. Kennelly's storage and networking company could be a major beneficiary of the cloud trend that's expected to transform computing over the next decade or so.
What exactly is cloud computing? Definitions vary wildly, but it is essentially the interconnection of computer-data centers via a network, usually the Internet. The cloud image is a tracing of Internet links that connect several different computer systems.
You're in the clouds when you access a photo from a social-networking Website like FaceBook or MySpace and store your pictures on the site, rather than on your hard drive. You're also using cloud computing if you're a small-business owner who decides to access his sales group's customer-relationship programs via a Web browser from Salesforce.com (CRM: 74.82, +1.05, +1.42%) because he hates the hassle or expense of maintaining his own software applications. And if you're a giant Barron's 400 company that doesn't want to invest in any more data-storage arrays and opts to store digital information with IBM-run (IBM: 132.45, +1.55, +1.18%) data centers, you're again operating in the clouds.
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