What is Cloud Computing?

What is Cloud Computing? A General Overview about the Cloud Computing

Have you ever heard the phrase cloud computing? You must have heard this in one point, but you really aren't sure of what is cloud computing and what does it mean, right? Anyway, in this page, we will try to answer all of your questions about the said topic and hopefully educate people about the real meaning of cloud computing.

What can you expect from having a personal cloud computing?

•  All of your gadgets (PC, mobile, tablet, iPod etc) will be synchronized at all times.
•  You can access your stored information any time you like.
•  Organizing mine data online.
•  Sharing of data instantly regardless of type and size.

So with the given benefits of using cloud computing, you are probably thinking now that you could have been using it already, but you are just not aware. To give you an example, of what is cloud computing, have you ever used Gmail? If yes, then maybe you are aware of how they share files with their Google docs, right? With Google docs, you get to share information whether written document or spread sheet file. Anyone with permission to view and edit the file can do so. That is a classic meaning of cloud computing, we just don’t use the term for it more often.

Personal cloud computing

Personal cloud computing on the other hand is to make all of your personal information easily accessed by you or anyone you want to share it with. A classic example for personal cloud computing is by using your social networking site like Facebook wherein you enter your personal details like name, address, employment information, companies you have worked with, schools you have attended, personal pictures and of course your current insights about things through your wall posts. Anyone from your friend’s list will be able to get and see all these information of you because you want to share it with them. This is now what we call personal cloud computing. 

We might be expecting something like: our gadget knowing what we like and what we want to do even without our command. It may sound weird today, but the possibility of it happening in the near future is crystal clear.

Characteristics of cloud computing


The cloud computing shows the following characteristics: agility, API, cost efficiency, device independence, multitasking, reliability, scalability, consistent performance monitoring, secured, and easy maintenance. 

Today, cloud computing is getting all the rage. Cloud computing is still a very young technology and we still having more room for improvement. Although the meaning of cloud computing may be differ from one point of view of a person to another, it still all boils down to sharing one meaning which is delivering information over the internet. It is very similar to: autonomic computing, client server model, grid computing, mainframe computer, utility computing, peer to pee and service oriented computing.