What is cloud computing?

With LOTS of details please, Wikipedia isn't helping.. Thanks so much!What is cloud computing?
Definition: Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like electricity.





Basically, instead of something being processed on your computer, you can go to a website or web application that handles all the processing for you. The processing power is increased and the speed at which your request can be completed is much faster. Cloud computing also includes online storage and backup services, web services (ups shipping, for example) and many many more applications.



The cloud is basically just a marketing term that has surfaced and can be used interchangeably with internet (ex: Internet Computing)



In networking, large external networks (for example, the internet) can and have been represented by a cloud-like icon in diagrams for many many years before the term 'cloud computing' became popular.





Simply put, cloud computing just means some server somewhere on the internet is processing information for you, and not on your computer.What is cloud computing?
I found a few pages that describe CC, check them out (link below). I don't know how you can have it more detailed than wikipedia tough.



It basically a lot of computer connected together, and the tasks are divided between them. You can have computers all around the world, connected to the same cloud, and the work as one.What is cloud computing?
Running applications off the internet, and storing files and settings on a server, instead of your own computer, basically.



Use Google Docs as an example. That's a cloud application.