"If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business."
- Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
- Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
Since I'm not a CEO of a company trying to profit from the cloud, let's get bogged down with a definition. I like the one put forward by MicrosoftTM here--https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-cloud-computing/.
Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services--servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and more--over the Internet ("the cloud...