Article: What's this 'cloud' I keep hearing about?

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Apple is making solemn promises to synchronise all our email, contacts and calendars in "the cloud". IBM is reported to be climbing aboard "the cloud". Amazon is trumpeting something called an Elastic Compute Cloud, while Dell have tried, and failed, to register the trademark "cloud computing". So what is the cloud? No need to brace yourselves for an onslaught of geek-speak: it's the internet.

So why all the fuss over a buzz word? After all, anyone using webmail services such as Yahoo! and GMail is already knee-deep in "the cloud", with emails and the program itself both stored remotely. It's because more and more online applications are launching - and the amount being splurged ...

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