How deploying to the cloud makes things easier
If you’ve ever browsed a website, you’ve used the cloud. Some computer in a data center received your request and returned the web page you wanted. It doesn’t matter if that data center was in Iceland, Ireland, or Indonesia, so long as you have a network connection and clear protocols on how to talk to each other (that’s the http and www that you’re used to seeing in web links).
Most websites are read-only, or close to it, but what if you could request space in that data center and install an app into it, just like you do on your mobile phone? You’d then communicate with that newly installed app in the data center rather than your phone. That, in very simple terms, is the cloud.
Excel 365, the online version of Office, is an example. You’re unaware of the location of the data center that is hosting your document, but you are confident that Microsoft has all of the security checks to...
