Complete Cloud OS FAQ
For long, the geeks had discussed of the D-day when the OS would disappear and everything would be accommodated in a cloud. At this day, Cloud computing is a throwaway word that includes everything from web mail to Facebook. Amazon had an important role in the development of cloud computing by modernizing their data centers after the dot-com bubble. They found that the cloud architecture could significantly improve their internal efficiency and started offering access to their system through the Amazon Web Services in 2005 on a utility computing basis. Google, IBM, and a number of universities followed the suit getting involved in large scale cloud computing research project in 2007. A year later, a number of organizations started switching from company-owned hardware and software assets to per-use service-based models. This marked the emergence of cloud computing. There are vague concepts on cloud computing circling the web. To clarify the concept we present a detailed FAQ on cloud computing.
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