Cloud Computing
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For small businesses, cloud computing hits a particular sweet spot. With cloud services, small businesses reap the benefits of not having to deploy physical infrastructure like file and e-mail servers, storage systems or shrink-wrapped software. Plus, the "anywhere, anytime" availability of these solutions, means hassle-free collaboration between business partners and employees by simply using a browser. In fact, it's not a stretch to say that aside from a locally installed desktop operating system and browser, a lot of today's small business technology needs can be fulfilled almost completely with cloud-based offerings. Click Here to Get Started With Cloud.
Cloud Computing: Facts, Security & Legal Challenges
By Minamur Chowdhury, University of British Columbia, UBC LAW Paper, December 2009
The Cloud is a metaphor for the Internet network diagram. Cloud computing is not a new technology but a new concept that encapsulates a platform of applications. The concept runs on the Internet thereby providing applications to end users without the need of physically installing software or implementing complex infrastructure. Cloud computing can be divided into several categories: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Cloud computing services are emerging technologies that provide both businesses and individuals many benefits such as lowered costs and ease of accessibility but have also come with issues such as legal and security risks. Despite that, analysts say Cloud computing represents a sea change in the way computing is done in corporations. Merrill Lynch (banking and wealth management division of Bank of America) estimates that within the next five years, the annual global market for Cloud computing will surge to $95 billion. In a May 2008 report, Merrill Lynch estimated that 12% of the worldwide software market would go to the Cloud in that period. Those vendors that can adjust their product lines to meet the needs of large Cloud computing providers stand to profit. ... read more.
