Cloud Nine for China’s Cloud Computing?

Everyone’s talking about Cloud computing. Let’s talk.

We know that cloud computing is a term reinvented for Web2.0. It has existed in many names, especially by the name: Internet. Essentially, cloud computing moves applications or services from client to server. The client, in turn, fetches the remote services using web services.

So what’s the fuzz about cloud computing in 2008? Amazon has been doing it for years now through Amazon Web Services. Maybe because Google and Microsoft have now decided to crash the party. Microsoft launched Azure in October. This got people talking.

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