Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet.Cloud services has three distinct characteristics that are different from traditional hosting.It is sold on demand usually by the minute or hour.It is elastic which means the user can have as much or as little of a service as the they want at any given time.The service is fully managed by the provider.

So how does cloud computing work?
For example in an organisation instead of installing a suite of software for each computer,you'd only have to loal one application.That application would allow people to log into web based services which host all programs.Remote machines owned by another company would run everything from email to word processing, this is what is what cloud computing is.

The future of cloud computering is very exciting according to GM of Gigaspaces Mr Geva Perry who spoke to cloudcomputing.sys-con.com.Perry sees the trend of large vendors entering cloud computing.Google has  announced various initatives in cloud computing. Perry says all major IDEs will offer cloud deployment options.A next gereration of middleware for the cloud will rise on dominance over traditional J2EE application servers. 

Today chip manufacture Intel outlined its vision for the future of cloud computing.Intel claims that fully featured cloud computing solutions that offer small and medium enterprises an automated client aware approach will pave the way for widespread uptake of managed hosting on a grand scale.