In simple terms, most of your applications, documents, and general computing occurs on the PC that you are using. Cloud computing is the trend to move more and more of those functions "into the cloud" meaning on the internet.
As a practical example, most web mail is "cloud" mail... you go online to access, view, manipulate, and send emails (as opposed to a local client such as Thunderbird or Outlook). Google took it a step further by popularizing other applications in Google Docs, Calendar, Sheets, etc. Although the Google examples work through a browser, it can be implemented like a traditional icon-launched application.What is cloud computing?
Hi,
Yes it is a fairly new trend.
Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet.[1][2]
The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents.[3] Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online which are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.
There is more on :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_compu鈥?/a>
Arnak
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