What exactly is "the cloud"?
What exactly is "the cloud"?
Ceci n'est pas un nuage.
So all the servers are in France?
Je ne sais pas, mais si Tony le dit ça doit être vrai.
Rire á haute voix!
RAHX! for short.
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I thought it is where female celebrity pictures are kept.
Wikipedia explains it quite nicely:
Cloud computing is internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources.
The origin of the term cloud computing is unclear. The expression cloud is commonly used in science to describe a large agglomeration of objects that visually appear from a distance as a cloud and describes any set of things whose details are not inspected further in a given context.
In analogy to above usage the word cloud was used as a metaphor for the Internet and a standardized cloud-like shape was used to denote a network on telephony schematics and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams. With this simplification, the implication is that the specifics of how the end points of a network are connected are not relevant for the purposes of understanding the diagram. The cloud symbol was used to represent the Internet as early as 1994,[SUP][10][/SUP][SUP][11][/SUP] in which servers were then shown connected to, but external to, the cloud.
References to cloud computing in its modern sense can be found as early as 1996, with the earliest known mention to be found in a Compaq internal document.[SUP][12][/SUP]
The popularization of the term can be traced to 2006 when Amazon.com introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud.[SUP][13]
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Don't worry, all of the servers for the cloud are stored in the Ukraine and Northern Iraq where they are fairly safe.