cloud computing

Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

Noun

  1. Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.
    • In the long run, full embrace of “cloud computing” will require some kind of convenient always/everywhere internet access different from what we have now. But this is an interesting step. - 2008 March 18, James Fallows,...

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