What is Cloud Computing?, Need of Cloud Computing?

i guess one of the first cloud computing tasks was the SETI screensaver.



basically, you use the shared computing capacity of other computers.What is Cloud Computing?, Need of Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is pretty much computer work that is not done on the host computer. Proxies are a good example of cloud computing, because you put in a website, the proxy's server does the work and retrieves the information (notice, it isn't being done on your computer -- its only on the others server) and displays it to you. Microsoft is planning to introduce skydrive, which would be a dropbox killer. This would let you store things "in the cloud", which means you can access them anywhere.

In essence, Cloud Computing is when another computer does the work for you, on some remote corner of the world.What is Cloud Computing?, Need of Cloud Computing?
keeps all your stuff on the internet as oppose to you desk top or lap top great for mobile devises with low memory