Cloud has a silver lining? -Indianapolis Star

If the head in the Cirrus and Cumulus lost is not, you've probably heard computing from cloud in recent years.

"The Cloud" has York cartoon prominently in President Barack Obama technology initiatives in the business plans of the well-known tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, and even a new last month, fighting, parachutist figured to use a laptop.

It also became a target of skeptics, such as Oracle founder Larry Ellison.

"It is databases and operating systems, microprocessors and memory and the Internet." And suddenly, it is not about that - it is 'Cloud', "Ellison said in a speech, you can pull down from the YouTube section of the cloud."

Oracle now offers a "Premier Cloud Services", but Ellison had a point. For a decade, Oracle had rented the enterprise resource management system for enterprise customers who are not in their own hardware, software and it personnel-an important advantage of using the cloud to invest. So, the "software as a service" had other companies, pioneer a phrase buzz cloud era.

Still, that means not cloud computing is a nebulous idea or marketing trick.

Proponents such as Patrick Harr, Hewlett-Packard's Vice President that global cloud strategy, argue that the recent technological and business developments "Cloud" make really different one manner of use of computer resources.

"The cloud is the great equalizer," said Harr. It offers businesses and consumers access to user-friendly services that might require otherwise large expenses for software, hardware and training. And that access may often be available from anywhere on the Internet.

Otherwise unthinkable, for companies, it offers access to resources.

Harr DreamWorks said Studios used for rendering of Filmen-HP's cloud services-the extremely data-intensive process that brings together all the digital elements of a full scale animation. Even with high-performance computers, rendering a segment of a film take days, he said.

As Ellison said, cloud computing databases is, operating systems, memory, microprocessors, and the Internet, all in a package. But with the cloud, the total exceeds the sum of its parts.

Harr said two important progress different cloud computing - from earlier versions of remote hardware and software rental and mark "a fundamental technological change."

One is "client," in which many companies tens of thousands of servers can have a huge pool of powerful resources such as HP. A small business might have a very small part of the resources, perhaps only a section of a single server to which each emulates a dozen "virtual machines" that hosts a stand-alone computer. Hundreds of servers could use a big company.

The other key automation is the important tasks, such as for example in response to a sudden need for additional resources. With in-house technology, a retailer with a holiday could increase in demand or a media company which are overwhelmed by a video goes viral and generates millions of hits. With the cloud, additional resources can be deployed quickly and seamlessly.

The list of who offers cloud services is long and growing. There are niche players as auch-- sometimes through partnerships between software and hardware company but under the direction of giants like Google, HP and Amazon.