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Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.[1][2] Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them.[3]
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The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.[6]
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Efficiency and cost effectiveness are why many schools, colleges and universities are looking closely at the cloud.
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Increasingly staff and students are requiring (demanding?) ubiquitous access to their files, applications and social connections - any time, any place, any device. Cloud computing provides a powerful way of achieving this.
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The Social Desktop It’s easy to share a link to a Web site because of its URL, but there’s no way to link directly to items stored on a computer’s desktop, said Cezary Marcjan, principal software design engineer for Microsoft Research.
Mr. Marcjan’s project, Social Desktop, adds URLs to files and folders on a computer desktop, allowing other users to access them — and add comments or make changes — using any type of browser.
“Especially if people are using different operating systems, it becomes very, very hard,” Mr. Marcjans said. “This way, we can just publish this content and ask people for annotations, and we can collect those items on the desktop.”
This is one of those devices that looks good - is deisgned for connecting to the cloud and the developers hope it to be under $200. If so bye bye kindle.
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This is a Linux based operating system and a Webkit based browser. The device boots directly into the browser.
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This is a Linux based operating system and a Webkit based browser. The device boots directly into the browser.
background information on cloud computing - deserves further reading
a book on higher education in the age of cloud computing also resources to other cloud computing articles
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