The Column

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Cloud Computing 101: A starter's toolkit

Here I try to cut some of the mystery out of cloud computing ... or maybe really muddy the waters up some more.


Excerpt:

"Here's the beauty of cloud computing: You can conceivably get by without a hard drive at all. Shoot, all you really need for cloud computing is an operating system, Web connection and browser, and perhaps a USB thumb drive for local storage. If you want to do it like a real geek, put your operating system and Web browser on the thumb drive and boot off that. Hard drive? What's a hard drive?"

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