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Cloud computing

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Cloud computing

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- Virtualization on my local machines is absolutely fantastic, but I've got an idea for you. What if we took a computer that's full of virtual machines and put it up into a big server farm somewhere in Colorado and then gave people remote access to their virtual machines? That's what we call the cloud. Arguably, the cloud means anytime I don't know physically where a computer's located, but I can access it by its IP address is a cloud function. So I would personally argue that every time you open up a web browser and go to Google, you are doing a cloud function 'cause there is a web server somewhere out in the universe. You don't know where it is, but it's working for you. But when we're talking about cloud in this context, what we're talking about are virtual machines that you have some degree of control of. You don't know physically where they're at, you don't even care, but you can manipulate them. You can administer them using remote tools. You have its IP address, you control its…

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