About Cloud Computing – It was a quickwrite for a college essay writing seminar I went to, about a year ago and before I knew much about cloud computing. Exact retype.
I really love the idea of cloud computing. It’s versatile, fast, moderately stable, and scary. The moderate scariness comes from the idea of having your data spread out. It isn’t accessible from any one address, because it isn’t at any one address, little bits are all over the data center. This does, however, require a bit of intelligence on the part of the level3 cloud provider’s network.They have to be able to quickly and efficiently distribute computational commands and data, and return those coherently to the user in a timely fashion. But more Importantly, If anyone were to expect anything less than perfection, the entire system would fail, and we would return to the good-old single server-client architecture and and much efficiency would be lost. The main difference between cloud infrastructure and regular is grace. With a standard architecture, you throw more servers or bandwidth at your problem. With cloud computing, you merely make the system architecture more efficient.
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