Cloud Computing for personal use...
The best way to understand how you can benefit from using cloud computing in your personal life is probably to illustrate how you already do today, and not even know it...
The following are examples of Personal Cloud Computing use:
- Google or Yahoo Gmail: When you log into your email from your mobile phone or tablet, you are accessing those files remotely from "the cloud."
- Flickr/Snapfish/Shutterfly Photo Services: When you upload and then access your photos to reprint them, or to organize them into a neat calendar at the end of the year, you are using the cloud, and those companies' technologies remotely, to provide these services.
- Carbonite/Mozy File Storage Services: This is a way to store your files "in the cloud" so that you can access them from anywhere in the world, simply by using a web browser from your mobile device, laptop or even hotel PC.
- Expedia/Car Rental/Other Travel Services: If you've booked hotels or airfare on these services, then you've used cloud-based software to not only book your travel or rentals, but also to store your preferences for future travel.
- Use Facebook? Then you are using cloud-based delivery of your photos, videos, and your own personal databse of friends and their contact information.
These examples are considered benefits of simply using the internet to get things done, but they are also ways in which software, key technologies and databases, and so many services are delivered through cloud computing. The internet is not the cloud. It simply efficiently delivers the benefits of cloud computing.
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