Information the engineering community needsrnto know about the cloud: Web services, hardware, and programming tools are just a few of the important considerations.rnThe latest buzz in enterprise computing today surrounds cloud computing. Rather like a cloud, the term itself is vague and subject to interpretation, and there is no succinct definition of just what it encompasses. Software as a service (SaaS) can often be considered to be coming from the cloud, commercial Web services are accessible through the cloud, and grids might be used to execute those services. But much of cloud computing is still being defined, and its perceived benefits are in the process of being digested.
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