Cloud computing

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For those of you that are using such tools as Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook, Office Live, you are using the cloud.

Gartner defines cloud computing as “a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.”

Let me tell you what that really means. Let me break out some of the keywords here.




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