The Cloudipedia group is a safe place to learn about cloud computing. Our goal is to cut through the big company marketing and high-tech jargon to take cloud computing principles to the masses...

Join our discussion to learn and share what cloud computing is really all about. We will address topics such as:

- What is cloud computing?
- Why should I care?
- How can I get on the cloud?

In this day and age, we have all become stakeholders in the computing movement, and we are all affected when major changes occur.

We will discuss topics such as:
- What's the big deal about Amazon, Salesforce, Google?
- What buzzwords should I know?... platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), etc.
- What is NASA doing?
- What are the problems?
- What about security?

So then, it should be no surprise that another computing evolution is upon us, as there have been several since the dawn of the information age. With cloud computing, we’re entering the type of radical shakeup that only comes around once every 20 to 30 years: a disruptive shift in the underlying computing platform-of-choice. Remember when we moved from host computers to PCs? Now, cloud computing is shifting that computing power back to hosts again. Only this time things are different, because those hosts have become abstracted, and are scattered all over the Internet… all over the world.

This is an important group, whether you're a home Internet user, a software developer or just trying to keep up on technology trends. « less