I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. ... Joni Mitchell
Mikal Belicove gives us a primer on cloud computing
The cloud simply means applications and services that people access via the internet instead of installing software on their own computers. If you're online, you're somewhere in the cloud. The reason for so much discussion about these services lately is that, over recent years and months, many valuable services that once required installing applications have become available as cloud services. Often, businesses can use free versions of these applications in the cloud, while full-featured versions are available at low subscription rates.
