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Why is everything called "cloud"
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Yes, when the server outages, everything will go as cloud.
Both Amazon and Google refer to remote software as cloud computing. Why can't Microsoft?
There's more to 'cloud' than just storage.
Watch the commercial. Nothing in it is cloud based. She edits a photo on a computer which is connected to a camera.
That photo editing software is running on Microsoft-owned computers in a data center outside of that woman's house.
I'm really not sure what else to call that other than 'cloud-based computing.'
One of Steve Job's best friends, Larry Ellison, thinks the "cloud" term is stupid as well. It's seems to be just a new hip marketing buzzword for what used to be called servers, as in client-server computing.
However there can be one slight difference today. A server is usually a network computer that your company, or the company that you browsing, owns and knows where it is (city X, building 14, room 7, rack 12). The cloud can be the arrangement of network computers which a company can rent (or use time on), but that computer could be in some random data center who knows where on any given day (North Carolina, Fremont, Oregon, Bucharest, etc.). It could even be a non-existant virtual computer.
I have no clue where my iCloud data could be on any given day.
Maybe even slightly scary.
However there can be one slight difference today. A server is usually a network computer that your company, or the company that you browsing, owns and knows where it is (city X, building 14, room 7, rack 12). The cloud can be the arrangement of network computers which a company can rent (or use time on), but that computer could be in some random data center who knows where on any given day (North Carolina, Fremont, Oregon, Bucharest, etc.). It could even be a non-existant virtual computer.
I have no clue where my iCloud data could be on any given day.
Maybe even slightly scary.
"Cloud"-based app to edit red-eye? Wow, Microsoft is really innovating, aren't they.
/yes, off topic, I know.