When you first hear mention of cloud computing, a pastoral image of an expansive blue sky dotted with puffy clouds might come to mind. As you might have guessed, however, cloud computing has nothing to do with cirrus, stratus, or cumulonimbus clouds. Instead, it is all connected to computers and how software, servers, and storage resources are provided over the Internet.
Cloud computing is a computing model that is tied to virtualized and scalable resources that are…











