With its origins in the grid computing services that have been offered by vendors such as Sun Microsystems and IBM for a number of years, cloud computing is essentially a method of outsourcing intensive IT operations to third-party service providers. These providers take over much of the responsibility for delivering applications and performance to organisations that would rather not go to the effort or expense of running their own datacentres.
Concept of Cloud Still Shrouded in Mystery
August 13, 2008