Cloud Computing as it Stands Today

Abstract

Cloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a computer network. The most common analogy to explain cloud computing is that of Public utilities which as electricity gas and water. Just as centralized and standard utilities free individuals from the vagaries of generating their own electricity or pumping their own water cloud computing frees the user from having to deal with the physical, hardware aspects of a computer or the more mundane software maintenance tasks of possessing a physical computer in their home or office.