cloud computing
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal 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, “Another step toward the online “cloud computing” life”, in The Atlantic:
- Related terms
- utility computing