Cloud computing is a relatively new concept for the oil and gas industry, but its role is growing because it is ideal for E&P information delivery, decision-support, and collaboration. In the early days of corporate computer networking, the Internet was depicted on many network diagrams with a cloud-shaped icon. Everything on a company's network was connected to this cloud. Given certain assumptions and conventions about how information would be handled in the cloud, it was generally understood that "things would just work," that data transmitted into the cloud would arrive at its destination.
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