What are real time applications of 'Cloud computing'?

Give some examples...What are real time applications of 'Cloud computing'?
Basically any web application/site that store "data" for you without you being aware of where/how exactly it's being stores is "cloud computing". The data goes inside a cloud %26amp; when reqd. comes out of that cloud. As a user you can't see (or don't care to) the inside working of the cloud e.g

1) Email servers like Yahoo %26amp; GMail store your mails which may also have file attachments too. Some enterprises rent such Email services for internal use from other vendors to keep their capital cost low. (Email servers %26amp; software are a bit costly to buy %26amp; maintain)

2) You can store files to servers on the web so that you can access them any where. How it is stored/retrieved is not important. e.g. DropBox

3) You want a database to store information but don't want the hassle to install one on your machine, you get that as well e.g. Microsoft Azure

3) You get CPU time too in cloud computing. So, if you were working for some complex problem %26amp; you temporarily require a server performing the computation for it, without requiring buy such high end servers, you get that too as part of cloud computing. e.g. Google Apps, Azure

Apple has also introduced its own cloud computing which basically caters to email service %26amp; file storage service.
At the end of the day, it is just distributed computing.

The best Cloud vendors offer "virtual servers", or computing units that can be provisioned dynamically.

Which means that you can now use servers that you do not own, to run an application.

The application can be anything you would run on a normal server. However, your cost is lower.



Many websites will use "cloud servers" as as caching servers, or even web servers.

Some companies will use Auto Scaling capabilities to allow new cloud servers to be added to their infrastructure when the traffic is heavy.



Imagine that Facebook or Yahoo news just picked up an article or an application you wrote.

A LOT of people would hit your site. I could use cloud computing vendors to fire up more servers so that I could handle the traffic on my site. But I would only pay for the servers while they were up. When the traffic slowed down, they would shut down. I can now have the power of a very large infrastructure, but only pay for it when I need it.



Other uses:

Load and performance Testing (SOASTA)

Virtual Labs (SkyTap)

Auto Scaling (RightScale)

Many SAS based services

Salesforce.com, Google AppsWhat are real time applications of 'Cloud computing'?
cloud computing is uploading files or documents to a online server that connects to several computers or servers at once.

my office network uses a combination of servers, desktops, and laptops. it works really well and even allows people to work from home as long as they can connect to the internet.



It really depends on the size of the files you want to transfer and the speed of your connection.

for transferring small stuff like spreadsheet,presentations and pictures it's nearly instantaneous but for large things compressed files, long videos or lots of music it can take time for it to be accessible.



at work I use https://www.dropbox.com/ it's quite easy and fast but, you must pay for the service.
The best and well known application to all is



Google documents



Google documents is based on cloud computing.What are real time applications of 'Cloud computing'?
any apps or benefits are outweighed by the need to trust people with your data and information when dishonestly using that data is the best way for them to make money
Twitter
google apps
Online ERPs