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The 3rd paragraph IMHO defines what most people think of as "Cloud Computing" and as more SaaS (and PaaS, etc.) happens this will increase. Starting out with a paragraph about distributed computing is too esoteric for what most people are doing. If I can figure out how to edit this topic I will make that change. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/66.35.226.228|66.35.226.228]] ([[User talk:66.35.226.228|talk]]) 22:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Provide Context ==
In my role as IT Director, I always find it difficult to introduce the idea of moving IT departments and services to the cloud without first providing a context as to why. Why should we spend the time, manpower, dollars to embrace this possibly "over-hyped" technology. I always start off by describing the problem we are trying to address, then delve into the solution. This is basic PM presentation 101.
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== Is it too technical? No, but I have a suggestion ==
It was clear enough to me, a non-techie, once I got past "virtual servers". But it wouldn't hurt to have a sort of dictionary type entry for those, like me, who've heard the term without knowing specifically what it meant. Usually I wait until context eventually makes it obvious, but context wasn't doing it so I searched here. A brief, simplistic definition at the beginning may be all some users need, and may help make the article more clear right away for those who want more info. My suggestion would be: Use of software and applications from the Internet rather than being installed and run on an individual PC, including services such as data backup on the Internet rather than on a PC hard drive. It leaves out a lot but may give a ground level idea of what's being referred to when the term 'cloud computing' is used. It would have allowed me to know right away what 'virtual servers' (for example) referred to.
Seems like it's new term for a computing concept and practice that's been around well over a decade. I recall the 'Inet machines', which were inexpensive small laptops ($300 when even basic laptops cost $2000) that had little or no hard drives and only an operating system and a browser. And lots of us worked in companies with a hardwire intranet where all the software was run from the company servers. May still be the case, but I'm retired and not up on these things.
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::Yes, it's an old girl tarted up to look like a peach. "Thin clients", diskless workstations that relied on central computing cores and storage were displaced by the cheap and powerful desktop workstations that became available in the 2000's, and now we're seeing the same old players trying to sell their failed architecture wrapped up in new buzzwords... And at a time when desktop computers are smaller, less expensive, and more powerful than ever. The real intent can be seen when one "follows the money"... Direct corporate control of access to content. {{unsigned|131.215.115.311|22:53, 31 March 2014 (UTC)}}
: (Not authored by previous paragraph writer) So again, my two cents: 'Cloud computing' covers a lot of ground and frequently means different things to different people. This article might benefit from serving as a overview or disambiguation article, with new individual article covering specific sub-areas of 'cloud computing.' Broadly, four areas leap to mind: Data storage, application usage, networking, and data management. They might roughly map to IAAS, SAAS and PAAS but I'll leave that for true Wikipedians to decide. :-) Thanks again. [[User:Scott.somohano|Scott.somohano]] ([[User talk:Scott.somohano|talk]]) 01:51, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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