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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (2627)	11/1/2009 4:15:50 PM
From: Uncle Frank	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2955

Cloud computing takes this one step further and puts the host computer itself in the cloud. It is no longer your computer, but one of many computers provided by the cloud computing infrastructure provider. It isn't a specific dedicated computer, just some computer somewhere that got assigned when you started up the application. It has a logical position, but its physical position is unknown to you. You don't own the computer, you rent it. The user can be anywhere, but has a logical path by which they can connect to it. Everything is virtual to the store or the user, but, of course, somewhere there are real computers doing what they always do. Because the infrastructure vendor has lots of computers and disk and other resources, it is very easy to dynamically scale up (or down) because one is only renting the time on the machines, not paying for the machines. That help? Honestly, no. It doesn't explain how Cloud Computing benefits a user. And I find it hard to imagine a corporate entity entrusting an infrastructure provider with that degree of control over their computational needs and that degree of access to their data.