Cloud Computing is slowly becoming an industry buzz word. It is quickly becoming THE term of the decade pretty much like Investment Management or Fund Accounting used to be the buzz words of the Nineties.
The term Cloud Computing probably is derived ( at least partly) from the fact that on any software architecture the internet or any large networked environment is shown as a big Cloud. So guess that kind of stuck and now remains synonymous to what is now quickly catching up as a Cloud service. Now CRM is Cloud CRM, Mail is Cloud Mail, Applications are Cloud Applications. What is it, I am not sure lot of people understand it and they need not. Who cares what it is, all they know and care to know is they can depend on it to send and receive data from it.
Typically send and receive is a Mail function; so mailing is the first abstract use of Cloud. Cloud computing is now taking on a more higher level of abstraction. It is now being attached to higher degree of utility or grid computing.
The hardware and software required to keep it functional are now capable of much higher level of service. Users are blind to this side of infrastructure as they need not bother, all the users care is can I have access to this Cloud and can I use it to build applications.
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